[
UK
/lˈɪdləs/
]
ADJECTIVE
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always watchful
to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal -
having no lid
a lidless container
a lidless container -
not having or covered with a lid or lids
a lidless container
a lidless container
How To Use lidless In A Sentence
- It comes round or oval, lidless and sometimes earless, most often with vertical sides, though in the round version the sides could slope to a small flat base.
- Thanks to the lidless litter section, trash is exposed and rotting.
- In ancient days astronomers might have read ominous portends in that lidless eye.
- Blinded by panic, by the image of those flickering tongues, the smooth scales, and those lidless black eyes, she screamed. MY FAVORITE BRIDE
- a lidless container
- Loops of wire suspend lidless mason jars, which the owner calls ‘light pendants,’ from the overhead lath.
- That guy who used to play a lidless grand piano was always right in front.
- Three Figures Beneath a Tree" 1907-8 features women with lidless almond-shaped eyes, and faces with strange concave surfaces - depicted in a shallow stage set full of sharp wrinkles and ridges. Blockbuster Picasso show in Richmond must be seen, but it's not all masterpieces
- However, when we marched up the broad bricked walk and ascended the steps of the great building, whose many windows seemed to stare at us like lidless eyes, bretelle aprons sank into insignificance. My day : reminiscences of a long life,
- One drawing, dated 1768, shows a short-legged lidless partitioned square box, and another, dated 1769, shows an octagonal lidded container on short legs partitioned to hold eight bottles.