Sentence for shape | Use shape in a sentence

Sentences using the word shape. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use shape in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for shape.

• Look at the shape of his head. (8)
• Corelli used a bow of this shape. (3)
• Your behaviour is of that shape. (10)
• The natural shape of things is lost. (8)
• The shape of Death coming from her door? (8)
• Take that glove; it is the shape of my hand. (10)
• And, suddenly, his curious fear of this woman took shape. (8)
• The mighty pity falling from his eyes took in her whole shape. (10)
• A fiend in shape of man is always behind us to appropriate her. (10)
• The cockpit had seats all around it in the shape of a half-circle. (18)
• Why try to alter the make and shape of Nature with our petty chisels? (8)
• Thrice magnified, in phantom shape, Her dream of size she saw, agape. (10)
• In a word, he may shape its policy by non-journalistic considerations. (16)
• He pitched it back in the shape of a doubt of what Andrew had told him. (10)
• Later it was cut out at the sides, thus approaching the shape of our violin. (3)
• Her father strained his mind for the shape of the man to accomplish the feat. (10)
• Shape the hypothesis of a fairer woman the mother of the heir to the earldom. (10)
• Its shape shows a change toward the pear-shaped body and narrow neck of the lute. (3)
• The moonlight etched out the shape of her head, painted her hair with pallid gold. (8)
• Dark plans employed his mind, though they had taken yet no definite shape or form. (12)
• There was plenty of vapour in him, and it always resolved into some shape or other. (10)
• I keep the old house up in good shape, and we spend a month or so there every summer. (9)
• The enormity swelled its dimensions, taking shape, and pointing magnetically at her. (10)
• Algernon passed into the box, and was alone with an inanimate shape in blue bournous. (10)
• Algernon passed into the box, and was alone with an inanimate shape in blue bournous. (22)
• There was the river gleaming before us under a rainbow mist that hallowed every shape. (8)
• They were dressed very prettily in white, with large collars of absurd shape and size. (13)
• Authors are largely matters of fashion, like this style of bonnet, or that shape of gown. (9)
• But the walls were up, and the studding had already given skeleton shape to the interior. (9)
• Out in the darkness rises the witch-like skeleton tree, where a dark shape seems hanging. (8)
• His very delicate features were framed in a white beard and moustache of Elizabethan shape. (8)
• More prizes she her beasts than this high breed Wry in the shape she wastes her milk to rear. (10)
• Her hand and her whole shape he took, and she with closed eyes let him strain her to his breast. (10)
• Had she noticed how all the mountains in moonlight or very early morning took the shape of beasts? (8)
• Here thy shape To squeeze like an intoxicating grape – I might, and yet thou goest safe, supreme. (10)
• Adepts in it can cut their friends to any shape they like by practising it with the requisite skill. (10)
• It was as if a flower, which he had last seen in close and elegant shape, had bloomed in full perfection. (8)
• The idea had been gradually taking shape in his mind from the moment that he had possessed the Thousand. (22)
• Even the furze was gone; no shape of anything left, only the black, peaty ground, and the thickening mist. (8)
• We have then the key-note for debate: A Senate that sits on the heights Over discords, to shape and amend. (10)
• His work took the shape of scholarship, fiction, criticism, but poetry gave it all a touch of grace and beauty. (9)
• Its movements became less wild and large; the zigzags began to shape themselves into something like characters. (9)
• Michiella, seized by Leonardo, presents a stiffened shape of vengeance with fierce white eyes and dagger aloft. (10)
• Jon saw the fixed object; it had dark eyes and passably dark hair, and changed its position, but never its shape. (8)
• His tweed office suit was rumpled out of shape, and there were signs of the muddy roads on his trousers and boots. (13)
• They say that in delirium tremens you see a fixed object, preferably dark, which suddenly changes shape and position. (8)
• In that dark passage outside he felt two arms go tenderly round his neck; and a soft shape strain itself to his heart. (9)
• Burnamy told them a number of facts he said Stoller had got together about the place, and had given him to put in shape. (9)
• And so his father thought, after an examination of the youth, who was of manly shape, and had a fresh, non-fatuous, air. (10)
• Having got it written on the card, she was dissatisfied with it in that shape, and copied it upon a sheet of note- paper. (9)
• The letter was renounced and shredded: the dedicated ascetic contemplated a hooded shape, washed of every earthly fleck. (10)
• Here the original shape must be modelled in clay, and a plaster mould made of it, which is shellacked inside and greased. (17)
• The quality of vapour is to melt and shape itself anew; but it is never the quality of vapour to reassume the same shapes. (10)
• And for a second there did seem to Nedda a dim, gray shape moving square and dogged, parallel with them at the stubble edges. (8)
• At intervals of about every 25 feet expansion joints should be made, somewhat the shape of the tongue and groove in flooring. (17)
• It was at once attractive and refined, and he credited Beaton with quite all he merited in working it over to the actual shape. (9)
• At present, in the shape of a canvassing candidate, it was hardly honourable to let imagination dwell on him, save compassionately. (10)
• Great music under heaven is made, And in the track of rushing darkness Comes the solemn shape of night, And broods above the earth. (10)
• That shape formed, went, and formed again; as if in the very chair where he himself was sitting, he saw his father, black-coated, with. (8)
• The shapes were conical, like the Indian tents, but later the gable roof shape was adopted because of the greater interior space allowed. (17)
• He seemed trying to conquer it, to twist his face into its habitual shape, but, like the spirit of a strange force, the smile broke through. (8)
• The differences that strike the eye most strongly are the larger proportions, the flatter arch of the top, and the shape of the sound holes. (3)
• The first floorings had been laid throughout the house, and the partitions had been lathed so that one could realise the shape of the interior. (9)
• These early machine-made bricks were extremely ugly, due to their perfection of geometric shape, smoothness of surface, and monotony of red color. (17)
• The riches in this shape of fiction are effectively inestimable, if we consider what has been done in the short story, and is still doing everywhere. (9)
• Other instruments belonging to this period that have been discovered and preserved in museums are bronze horns somewhat curious in shape, called lüdr. (3)
• A blurred white shape flitted suddenly across the darkness at the far end and became motionless, as it might be a white-flowering bush under the trees. (8)
• The difference between them was principally one of shape, the Virginal taking the oblong form of the Clavichord, while the Spinet was more often triangular. (3)
• He had noticed her contracted shape and her eyes, and had talked magisterially to smother and overbear the something disagreeable prefigured in her appearance. (10)
• That soft, vibrating radiance seemed to have woven all into one mysterious whole, stilling disharmony, so that each little separate shape had no meaning to itself. (8)

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