Example Sentences

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A sketchy, mapless framework is not a plan.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

Last year, he explained to The Paris Review that “Periplum,” his first book, was named after “an ancient form of navigation, a kind of mapless way of moving through space, of reckoning.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

To-morrow we head off to the northeast, and into the mapless country.

From The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series by Arting, Fred J.

He was a failure, and one day he died.   Across the border of the mapless landHe found himself among a sad-eyed bandOf disappointed souls; they, too, had triedAnd missed their purpose. 

From Poems of Purpose by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Also my notion of nowhere to be at all—   Pardon, Myrtilla, my lack of restraint— Notion of mapless location is——d. it all—   Anywhere you simultaneous ain't.

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)