Example Sentences

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Its error is to confuse formlessness with freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“Premiers Pas Au Marécage” translates as “First Steps in the Swamp,” and it’s a meditation on evolution — formlessness into forms — by Sarah Page, a harpist and composer from Montreal.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

It’s unusual for a film’s relative formlessness to feel so satisfyingly good in the final stretch.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2021

His lyrics have traditionally dovetailed neatly with this sense of formlessness, leading listeners through word-puzzle mazes of dreamlike poetic fragments on tracks like 2013’s Overgrown.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2019

It was a kind of formlessness without any definition....

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife