Example Sentences

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But as the people gather together, giftless, they join hands and sing while the narrator tells viewers, “Christmas came anyway.”

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2019

To stockholders the reorganization is one of the nicest gifts of an almost giftless year.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wonder why he has heard my call, My giftless call—and what shall befall?...

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

I will not seek nor sue her, For I'm neither fonder nor truer Than when she slighted my lovelorn youth, My giftless, graceless, guinealess truth, And I only lived to rue her.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

And let him alone be herald appointed to Hades, who, though he be giftless, will give him highest gift of honour.”

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew