How to Use spineless in a Sentence

spineless

adjective
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  • In the end, Tucker put to bed the idea that Book was spineless.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2021
  • The spineless, silent Bob Kraft and the Patriots get no points for this move.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Now, the cuttlefish brings the number of spineless creatures known to possess the trait up to two.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
  • An example of the first school: the pitiful and spineless Joe McGinniss.
    — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Some wouldn't be quite so spineless as to hide their identity.
    — James Warren, The Hive, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Some wouldn’t be quite so spineless as to hide their identity.
    — James Warren, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • What Kourik noticed is that the plants have started to grow thorns; the spineless are becoming spined.
    — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2018
  • One agave in the side plot, a large spineless jade agave, has grown a flower stock that since December has soared to about 12 feet tall.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the succulent ones have spiny stems and look quite like a cactus, while others are spineless.
    — Brian Kemble, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
  • There’s nothing mindless or spineless about the synth-pop of Chvrches.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 June 2019
  • They’ve been viewed as spineless, cold and only there for the benefit of the employer.
    — Heidi Lynne Kurter, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Alabama voters have a soft spot for the likes of you goober, corrupt spineless types.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The latest episode of Bad Football Movies goes in-depth on the 1996 film, which focuses on life, love and a spineless football agent.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 26 July 2019
  • Don't look now, but this spineless sea creature may be able to count better than your toddler.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2016
  • Or whether Mr Trump will be quite happy to blow the deal up, blaming the spineless Europeans for siding with Iran.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In a world of spineless invertebrates, Roger Goodell and Rob Manfred had the best weeks.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Nothing like screwing over one of your children to team up with her spineless partner.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Pullman describes them in The Amber Spyglass as spineless creatures with trunks, and spurs for feet.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Online tools can give structure to a seemingly spineless day, but a good old notebook and pen works just as well.
    — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The spineless echinoderms, which are related to starfish and sea urchins, simply grow their viscera back in a few short weeks.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Being a spineless bottom-dweller might sound like an insult, but the hagfish has enough unique talents to put humans to shame.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2017
  • The governor of Tennessee could not come off as more of a gutless, spineless, hapless, dim-witted hick, by the way.
    — Ethan Renner, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
  • And he's surrounded himself with other racists who want the same thing, or spineless flunkies who will enable and cover for him.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 16 May 2018
  • We are led by a spineless group of men and women, tethered to money and re-election, their collective conscience gone with the wind.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
  • On the other hand, the alternative is that the Faceless Men are not only faceless, but a little spineless, too.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, WIRED, 17 June 2016
  • Josh O’Connor‘s portrayal of a tortured, spineless Prince Charles.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2021
  • Peyote, a small spineless cactus, has been getting people high for thousands of years.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Surrounded by spineless prickly pear, the shelter at the top of the hill eventually will be covered with ivy.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
  • And Dodi in turn is treated as a spineless daddy’s boy whose inability to read the room ultimately dooms himself and his relatively new girlfriend.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The Biden White House’s spineless vacillation only validates the terrible timelessness of that truth.
    — The Editors, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023

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