stuff
noun
the material of which anything is made.
stuffless
-
a word derived from
stuff.
Example Sentences
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At last she heard the cautious, stuffless tread of his rubber-soled shoes shuffling along the hall.
From The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
And yet it was only the sound—the almost stuffless sound—of a splash!
From From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Catherine shuddered as she heard the stuffless sounds, the tiny rustlings and burrowings of those wild, shy creatures whose solitude had lately been so rudely invaded, and who now of man's night made their day.
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
She woke—was it moments or hours later?—to hear a little, stuffless sound—that of the Herr Doktor's hand moving feebly across the sheet.
From The Red Cross Barge by Marie Belloc Lowndes
A stuffless voice—the voice of his first wife, the long-dead girl to whom his mind so seldom reverted nowadays—uttered into his ear the words, "Take care!"
From The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
