Example Sentences

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Its relative shapelessness, along with its use of a ghostwriter, doesn’t bolster her literary credentials, but its existence points to Monroe’s ambition to have them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023

And they suggest that some solace may be found in creating a story from uncertainty, in finding shape in shapelessness, in dwelling within the contours of all we don’t know.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2022

The former San Francisco 49ers coach and former Michigan star quarterback is as renowned for his intensity as he is for the shapelessness of his dad-bod pants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2015

It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin