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Meanings of wordless in English

Expressed without speech.

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        1
        The whole world pulsed to the one great melody-theuniversal, wordless song.
        The Knave of Diamonds
        2
        The wordless mumbling of a distant radio announcer turned into clear English.
        Exit strategy
        3
        I screamed against her hand, a wordless demand for understanding, for answers.
        Honour's Knight
        4
        That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        5
        Garuda come to feed him, dropping from the sky with wordless charity.
        Iron Council
        6
        He let out a wordless sound and staggered, falling to one knee.
        Skin Game
        7
        He turns and sees the friar standing motionless and wordless before him.
        A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
        8
        A wordless sense of delight and mystery stole over the little girl.
        A Little Girl in Old New York
        9
        Her thought sank away into a wordless reverie of the dreariest description.
        The Far Horizon
        10
        Auckland based composer whose music accompanies the wordless theatre work The Arrival..
        Radio NZ
        11
        It was if he were communicating a wordless warning to my father.
        Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
        12
        Bananach glanced at Aislinn and snapped her beak-mouth in a wordless threat.
        Darkest Mercy
        13
        The emperor seemed to be touched by her wordless yet eloquent grief.
        Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
        14
        She cried out, a long wordless, joyful sound like an unknown bird.
        The devil she knows
        15
        After a minute or so of wordless shivering, he suddenly snapped to.
        Perdido Street Station
        16
        Baba Segi returns to her side and the wordless chatter begins again.
        The secret lives of baba segi's wives
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        United States of America
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