How to Use nameless in a Sentence

nameless

adjective
  • The men were buried there in nameless graves.
  • She left the hotel with a nameless man in a black jacket.
  • The source for my story prefers to remain nameless.
  • A top government official, who shall remain nameless, has expressed concern about the decision.
  • The road was nameless, or none of us recalled its name.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Yet her heart lies with the poor, nameless man stuck in the basement.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Their feelings are murky and nameless.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Be grateful he was found by friends (as hard as that was) and not some nameless stranger.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Every victim that’s out there nameless will get their name back.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2025
  • But on this day, one of these three nameless men decides to break the routine.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • There are so many nameless men and women who made this food, who shaped this culture.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Oct. 2025
  • My friend, my nameless teacher friend, had her cell phone out and was on Snapchat.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2018
  • On one of these trips, Ana invites a nameless man to her hotel room.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
  • It isn’t hidden in an alley or obscured via a nameless door.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The key is to avoid letting your money sit idle and turn into a nameless slush fund.
    — Shane Enete, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The cub having remained nameless, the zoo now wants the public to vote on a name for him.
    — Fox News, 18 Nov. 2020
  • So far, the zoo believes the four nameless babies are female.
    — Michael Nied, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For now, the fingers are pointing at a nameless target, the starters.
    — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The nameless women who want to shed their strictures like snakeskins.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Although she's been around for more than two weeks now, the baby giraffe is still nameless!
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • The case soon went cold — and the victim remained nameless for 45 years.
    — Rio Yamat, The Enquirer, 15 June 2023
  • Of course there were the initial screams and the side-splitting moans, sounds that came from some nameless part of her body.
    — Hilary Leichter, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • The script is usually written in a nameless scrawl.
    — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • Each of us would attain boundless bliss by merging with the nameless masses, so we were told.
    — Wisława Szymborska, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Each of us would attain boundless bliss by merging with the nameless masses, so we were told.
    — Wisława Szymborska, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The text came from a fellow Globe columnist who shall remain nameless.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
  • The folkloric hero was replaced by a nameless thief, as well as a cobbler named Tack.
    — Tim Brinkhof, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The customer handed over a debit card, which was nameless, and then grabbed the cartons and left.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The main character is a nameless avatar in the original telling.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Rumours break like waves in some nameless river, dappling our sleeves with falsehood.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026

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