an old, shapeless baseball cap
right now this clay is just a shapeless lump, but wait until I'm done sculpting it
Recent Examples on the WebThe domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015 Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.—Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024 Here is the elephant so far: Thirteen billion years ago, in a universe that was then less than a billion years old, the Milky Way was born as a shapeless cloud of gas and dust, forming metal-poor stars and rotating incoherently so that its stars' orbits were also haphazard.—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 The real problem is the script (by Costner and Jon Baird), which is shapeless.—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for shapeless
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