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Often the density of detail is such that the sentences become verbless lists.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2019

In his tweets, he is prone to run-on sentences, shouty capitalisations, unpresidented misspellings and malapropisms, quote marks used for emphasis and verbless exclamations.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2017

But what endured in public memory far longer than the crime was the headline, with its verbless audacity, arresting parallel adjectives and forceful trochaic slams.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2015

Stylistically, McCann leans very heavily on one particular syntactical formation, the sentence capped by two or more lilting verbless fragments, which comes to seem like a mechanical affectation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013

While trying to screw my courage up to the point of making a verbless explanation of my difficulty, some one pushed through the crowd, and to my great relief began speaking to me.

From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by Hall, James Norman