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Example sentences for "unshapely"

Lexicographically close words:
unshadowed; unshakable; unshakeable; unshaken; unshaped; unshapen; unshared; unshaved; unshaven; unsheath
  1. Uttering this malediction, he scrambled out of the grave, and suddenly stood before the astonished maiden, who shuddered as she beheld the unshapely outline of a form which she instantly recognised.

  2. His whole person was so curiously enveloped in a loose travelling cloak that nothing but a dark unshapely mass, having some resemblance to the human form, could be distinguished.

  3. In rare instances frontier ranches use a few of the unshapely poles for corral fences, but only as a case of last resort.

  4. Rough and unshapely as Osage trees are, they have been more closely utilized than most timbers.

  5. Starting, he beheld a figure of a low and unshapely stature, clothed in a light dress, fantastically wrought.

  6. The tailless body changes into an unshapely tube, and, by the atrophy of some parts and the modification of others, gradually assumes the appearance we have already described.

  7. That our huge, unshapely shingle structures, blistering in the sun and glaring with windows, were evidently never reared by the spell of pastoral harmonies, as the walls of Thebes rose at the sound of the lyre of Amphion?

  8. Who from its bed of primal rock First wrenched thy dark, unshapely block?

  9. We have grown jealous of the body, and we dress it in dull unshapely clothes, that we may cherish aspiration alone.

  10. You always told me, you remember, that I minded too much the things that make for ugliness, that my eye was too sensitive to evil-coloured and unshapely things, and that I must live more in the world of thought.

  11. The next moment they would rise and float upon the surface, black unshapely masses of tinder.

  12. Its length is fully four and twenty feet; in shape it resembles a sloth, and its unshapely back rises like a small hillock out of the lofty grasses whilst it thrusts its huge head with the tiny eyes and the little round ears into the thicket.

  13. The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told, he cries, and over against the unshapely earth he sets up the "happy townland" of which he sings in one of his later and most lovely poems.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unshapely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    deformed; grotesque; malformed; misbegotten; misshapen; monstrous; shapeless; unsightly