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Big, bold, brightly colored shapes keep turning corners in the most subjectless, unliterary and unsensual art that the 20th century has up to the present produced.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most verbs that take subjectless complements, such as try in Alice tried to calm down, are governed by an ironclad rule that forces the overt subject to be identical to the missing subject.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

At first inarticulate, confused, they dripped strings of mere words; expletives, exclamations, detached phrases, broken clauses, sentences that started with subjects and trailed, unpredicated, to stupid silence; sentences beginning subjectless and hobbling to futile conclusion.

From Angel Island by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

Sick of his subjectless and dragging conversation, she gladly followed Lady Dundas to the drawing-room, where, opening her knitting case, she took her station in a remote corner.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane

The subjects without King can do nothing; the subjectless 454King can do something.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas