How to Use unformed in a Sentence

unformed

adjective
  • Spencer’s deftness with such unformed ideas is still a marvel to watch.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 31 May 2019
  • Our goal is to ally with scores of as-yet-unformed alumni groups around the country.
    — Stuart Taylor Jr. and Edward Yingling, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
  • All sleeping children are as alike as siblings, unformed, soft in the cheek.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
  • But what about the fence-sitters, vaccine-wary parents with unformed views?
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2015
  • Maybe that’s why his identity as a filmmaker seems so vaguely unformed here.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Angela’s unformed sense of self is mirrored in the novel by Ruth’s childlike state.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
  • What words in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with the accents that are ours?
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • If a little unformed and less than completely honest with himself, Jabari is a decent guy.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The ways of performative politics and media prey on unformed minds.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • Trump doesn’t use his Twitter account just to announce unformed policy.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • So very unformed, this protein nugget is going to take you on an embryonic journey that’ll last forever.
    — Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Austen’s image expresses energy at odds with its unformed context.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • My life always weighed in the balance against potential life, and the unformed life always seemed to win against my actual existence.
    — Time, 24 June 2021
  • Joe, while seeking a way back to his own body, ends up mentoring a bratty unformed soul, 22 (voiced by Tina Fey).
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Newsom’s plan is largely unformed and being introduced far in advance of the mid-June deadline for the state to pass its budget.
    — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Sandler plays a floundering basketball scout who risks his career on a talented but unformed new prospect, and his real-life love of the game shines through.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The fact that a couple thousand unformed personnel in Syria will be withdrawing is a tactical change.
    — John Hudson, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2019
  • More than a hundred years after unformed marble passed through her hands and into human form, her works are at long last assembled together to speak as a kind of family.
    — Tyehimba Jess, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There’s something beautiful but still-unformed about people in their early 20s, and the performers look too mature to convey it.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
  • In local races, voters’ opinions of the candidates tend to be relatively unformed and persuadable.
    — Meg Little Reilly, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The indigenous people believe the world was unformed and featureless before ancestral beings emerged and shaped species and landscapes.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Polls show the Florida governor either first or second in a still unformed primary field, along with the former president.
    — John McCormick, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Woodstock was different, a festival experience that was still largely unformed.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The ups and downs of life at a particular age, with peer pressures, communication with parents, relationships formed and unformed and other things, always go on.
    — Sylvia Gurinsky, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • As applied to a circle of unformed young people curious about the grown-up in their midst, the game Ray plays is one of domination, brainwashing them into needing his approval.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Though some high-profile critics have been rumored as potential opponents, the field of challengers remains largely unformed and there is no reliable public polling on the mayor’s job approval.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Her radiant, confused blankness effectively summons memories of being young, unformed and desperate to be liked.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
  • But the proposals to improve nutrition remain largely unformed, as the likelihood of meaningful improvements fade in the face of pushback from the food industry.
    — Robert Pearl, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Barthelme’s was a restless, hungry and, to a large extent, unformed intelligence, and almost every one of his stories encapsulates his odd narrative charm in all its loose and shaggy glory.
    — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Public standards have been demolished, and that deprivation has permeated the unformed morality of the young generation.
    — Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023

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