Example Sentences

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Yes, because spring feeds life and life is spiritual torture, a march of dull souls trudging through brown streets, haunted by loveless marriages and sparkless trysts.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

Anna considered selling the house, didn’t, retired early from a sparkless career, took up weaving and pottery, never remarried.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

Sometimes she felt sparkless, a drone heading into each harried, empty night.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2017

Nobody can outdo Ms. Stritch in the deployment of strategic pauses that attach powder kegs to seemingly sparkless lines.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010

For a moment she felt the waters of an immemorial ennui rise high in her own soul, then drop to the grinning skulls and sparkless ashes of old pleasures.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn