NAMELESS in a Sentence

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A vague, nameless dread came over him, and he hurried onwards frantically, dropping the precious food in his agitation.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAMELESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nameless
 a.  being or having an unknown or unnamed source
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Will Benteen was another soldier, like the nameless boy, who arrived unconscious across the saddle of a comrade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  All the nameless horrors that peopled her small imagination clutched her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  As she had run a hundred times in dreams, she ran now, flying blindly she knew not where, driven by a nameless dread, seeking in the gray mist for the safety that lay somewhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
4  But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
6  And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
7  In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
8  It seemed as though, by some nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
9  Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
10  He became a nameless terror to the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
11  Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
12  Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee; and by nameless blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
13  Far inland, nameless wails came from him, as desolate sounds from out ravines.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
14  Therefore these trucks went for the most part on the run; and the predecessor of Jonas had been jammed against the wall by one and crushed in a horrible and nameless manner.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  A vague, nameless dread came over him, and he hurried onwards frantically, dropping the precious food in his agitation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Example Sentence:
1  The author of the article is nameless.
2  A certain person, who shall remain nameless, forgot to lock the front door.
3  She said her recognition had opened the door for, as she put it, every nameless, faceless woman of color.