How to Use wordless in a Sentence

wordless

adjective
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  • Spears said in the posts, along with a brief, wordless video of herself.
    — Chron, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Marcus lifts the fence and saves the man, who stands up, wraps in him a wordless hug and bikes away.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • The nearly wordless crowd gave the forest the air of a church instead of a zoo.
    — Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • That is why the core of the tale resides in an almost wordless scene.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Save the ever-present rumble of the train, Fuller’s lede plays out as a wordless dance of the Big City.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The wind sings a wordless song across the Colorado plains, making acres sway.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Green Knight is most brilliant in its wordless sequences.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • But the wordless love of an equal human being — think on it for a moment.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
  • Like the series it's based on, Shaun the Sheep is mostly wordless, and the humans sound like gibberish to the sheep.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the movie is wordless, and the humans speak in gibberish, so this is a good pick for toddlers and preschoolers.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The wordless fourth panel shows Charlie Brown still on the mound, being pelted by hats and gloves.
    — Bruce Handy, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Some moving, wordless vocal pushes the vibe, and then the first climax hits.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But, Arrow's Nathan Mitchell plays him with a wordless stoicism that is cool and bone-chilling.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 3 June 2022
  • But even so, the younger man's resemblance to her husband (played by Claflin in a brief, wordless scene) unnerves Rachel.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • That wordless distress echoes through the galleries and hallways.
    — oregonlive.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The scene is a more satisfying end than the few, wordless panels Elle and Tao get in the original comics.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • This river is wordless, old groans coming from its depths.
    — Jesmyn Ward, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Perhaps that’s the point, for things get more interesting in the wordless scrum that follows.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • As forms of wordless storytelling, mime and music are sister arts that rarely share a stage.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The classic Tom and Jerry cartoons were engines of wordless slapstick joy: fast, clever, and fun.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2021
  • There’s something about wordless movement that feels like a balm at a time in which we have been trapped at home, tethered to our endless doom scrolls.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • But the wordless moments of humor and heart in the quieter scenes show Flanagan’s deft way with storytelling.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 8 Nov. 2019
  • My own feelings about the surgery were too convoluted—a lust for something wordless and new.
    — Cyrus Grace Dunham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • These wordless glimpses telegraph too little about her life.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2019
  • One of the most moving scenes is largely wordless: During a long drive, Cal tells his sister about the car crash that killed his mother two years ago.
    — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • When the probe scanner robot EVE lands on Earth in search of plant life, we’re given a much fuller sense of the wordless emotional range of these robots.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
  • There is one glorious, wordless spread where Smoot cuts across the gutter against a clamor of color.
    — Frank Viva, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • As artists elsewhere have been speaking up about their treatment, the Ailey dancers, in their acts of wordless absence, have joined those ranks.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Better still, in one marvelous, wordless interlude, an ape tells a joke to a cavern full of other apes.
    — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Although there is torture and brutality, the story also frequently opts for softer, wordless images of actors playing the nameless people who did not survive.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024

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