How to Use wordless in a Sentence

wordless

adjective
  • Spears said in the posts, along with a brief, wordless video of herself.
    — Chron, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Her voice became a wordless shriek.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • That is why the core of the tale resides in an almost wordless scene.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
  • What fun this wordless picture book will be for the little ones.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Looking at them fills her with a wordless unease.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • 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
  • But the wordless love of an equal human being — think on it for a moment.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
  • Instead, dinners were always wordless and so were most of the car rides.
    — Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
  • The wind sings a wordless song across the Colorado plains, making acres sway.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • That wordless distress echoes through the galleries and hallways.
    — oregonlive.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Sounds go through the muscles, these abstract wordless movements.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • His social media bio is wordless; there is just a ninja emoji.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • 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 Green Knight is most brilliant in its wordless sequences.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • Exploring the artist’s life and her wordless language of colour, new ways of seeing are found.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • Some moving, wordless vocal pushes the vibe, and then the first climax hits.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The night before my brain surgery, my wife and I sat across from each other in wordless stillness.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For me, these wordless noises were clearly about sadness and longing.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The story’s ending hinges on a small, almost wordless exchange.
    — Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 28 May 2026
  • Perhaps that’s the point, for things get more interesting in the wordless scrum that follows.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Thompson liked the idea of a wordless ending, expressing feelings through looks alone.
    — Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
  • If all of those books and documentaries tire the mind, a wordless spectacle might be in order.
    — Kellina Moore, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Bowie recorded a wordless guide vocal that offers a tantalizing glimpse of what the song could have been.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 July 2023
  • 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
  • Pete and Chasten graze each other's pinky fingers in a wordless moment of love.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Senator Harris gave the perfect, wordless answer with a tight-lipped nod of her head.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2020

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