Example Sentences

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What if a spectacle of authentic human suffering is obscured by disfiguring layers of flesh — or, in a bitterly ironic twist, concealed by a physical beauty that people assume to be superficial and depthless?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024

The backdrop is usually the bright gray or depthless black of the ocean.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2019

Not only because the human hunger for narrative is so depthless that to never know what ends up happening in this imaginary kingdom would be awful.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2019

Watson's Postman is a sweet-natured but depthless bloke on a bike.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013

Her eyes looked up through the delicate leaves of trees into a depthless sky.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt