hingeless
- a word derived from hinge.
Example Sentences
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The stove door still hung hingeless in his hand.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Between fields along the river bottom were gates distressingly crude; clumsy, hingeless panels of board fence, which I must dismount and lift about by sheer brawn of shoulder.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
They were mobbed, persecuted, derided, and yet they insisted that their prophet had miraculous power, and that he, too, could swing back the hingeless door of death.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
And however many times the carpenter might mend the door, it always remained hingeless, for she burst it open with her foot every time she brought in wood.
From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
There was no gate for the passage of teams; the road ended there, and a rough sign nailed to a hingeless wicket warned the wayfarer to "Keep Out."
From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff
