How to Use soulless in a Sentence

soulless

adjective
  • The houses in the new development are completely soulless.
  • These companies are heartless, soulless, money-making machines.
  • The worst mid-size crossovers are dull and soulless enough to sap your soul.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2021
  • What might have been viewed as soulless became its own kind of soul.
    — Jose Valentino Ruiz, The Conversation, 13 June 2025
  • John’s portrayal as a soulless hunk might have its seeds of truth.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Who wants to live in a soulless room that is Zen and spare and spartan?
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Most of my choices wouldn’t make sense to a soulless careerist.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
  • There may be a few folks who can salvage this soulless scourge of scarcity.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Slightly Stoopid wannabes, even more soulless.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But Mike White made these guys kind of wicked, very corrupt soulless guys.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The city is proposing a series of soulless and placeless places.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Sure, his look can be viewed as money-hungry, soulless, and empty.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2019
  • An angel descends to Earth to unite a soulless man with a woman.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • It should be replaced with a sprawling, soulless contrivance.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025
  • This halftime show wasn’t going to be a soulless tasting menu for the masses.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Airy guest rooms are modern but not soulless, and many open onto private patios.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
  • Nothing so soulless could ever make your heart race or bring a tear to your eye the way real music does.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Most of us live near an ugly, soulless stretch of road or highway that can quickly sabotage our mood.
    — Vincent Carroll, The Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2017
  • Building an empire or leading a business doesn’t have to be a mindless or soulless process.
    — Mark Nicholson, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Will his mom and pop operation be able to fend off these soulless vultures — or get swallowed alive?
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Zamyatin’s dystopia was clear, sterile, perfect—and hence soulless, and soul-killing.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • That absence of a decent character makes what happens cold and soulless.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe this optometrist could come to Kim Kardashian’s soulless white house?
    — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Pattern and color help the space avoid the soulless ice-box aesthetics of most penthouses.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The critics, at the time, clearly were shortsighted and perhaps soulless.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Imagine being at the drugstore, a place as soulless as Walgreens, and getting the call.
    — Max, Longreads, 12 May 2020
  • Hill stars as Ezra, a lonely Jewish guy in his mid-thirties stuck in a soulless finance job.
    — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
  • That’s what happens when the movie feels as dated as the games now do, saddled with poor writing, soulless style, and awkward casting.
    — Allegra Frank, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Social media users are not holding back, using words like soulless, bland and generic to describe the new version.
    — John Brandon, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • London has seen a deluge of hotel openings over the last few years—many of which are state-of-the-art, yes, but also a little soulless.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023

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