Sentences with dead
dead
D d - The dead
- A dead issue
- Six dead, baby critical in road carnage.
- Renegade Thai general reported dead after being shot.
- He is dead to my strongest pleas
- A dead handshake
- Five people are dead and a five-week-old baby is fighting for life after a horror 27 hours on Melbourne roads.
- Dead is the general word for someone or something that was alive but is no longer so; , deceased, departed are both euphemistic, esp. for one who has recently died, but the former is largely a legal, and the latter a religious, usage; , late always precedes the name or title of one who has recently died [the late Mr. Green] or of one who preceded the incumbent in some office or function [his late employer]; defunct, applied to a person, is now somewhat rhetorical or jocular, but it is also commonly used of something that because of failure no longer exists or functions [a defunct government]; extinct is applied to a species, race, etc. that has no living member; , inanimate refers to that which has never had life [inanimate rocks]; lifeless is equivalent to either , dead or , inanimate [her lifeless body, lifeless blocks]
- His gums were dead from the anaesthetic
- A dead sleep
- dead coals
- A dead stop
- The battery was dead
- A dead sound
- A dead ball
- dead capital
- You're dead if your mother catches you at that
- A dead zone
- The dead of winter
- dead stones
- A dead faint
- A dead handshake, a dead party, a dead white
- dead to love
- His arm hung dead at his side
- dead coals
- A dead volcano
- dead water
- A dead tennis ball
- dead languages, dead laws
- dead soil
- dead capital
- A dead shot
- dead center
- A dead stop
- dead level
- A dead wire
- A dead battery
- dead type
- A dead ball
- The dead of night, the dead of winter
- dead right
- dead ahead
- Her husband's been dead a year now.
- The dead included six people attending a religious ceremony.
- ...charred land, mountainsides of dead earth and stumps of trees.
- ...some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.
- The dead cigarette was still between his fingers.
- It's a dead issue, Baxter.
- We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language.
- On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead.
- 'That is correct, Meg,' he answered in his cold, dead voice.
- The blood drained from his face, leaving the skin dead white.
- He adjusted each chesspiece so that it stood dead centre in its square.
- Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope.
- dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.
- dead stones.
- A dead sleep; a dead faint.
- He was half dead with fright. My leg feels dead.
- dead to the needs of others.
- dead to the nuances of the music.
- A dead passion; dead affections.
- A dead law; a dead controversy.
- A dead motor; a dead battery.
- dead water; dead air.
- They felt dead from the six-hour trip.
- Latin is a dead language.
- A dead party.
- A dead business day.
- dead silence; The plan was a dead loss.
- The bus came to a dead stop.
- A dead cigarette.
- A dead tennis ball.
- dead land.
- The dead center of a circle.
- A dead shot.
- A dead line.
- A dead soft drink.
- The house was painted dead white.
- dead sound; a dead wall surface of a recording studio.
- dead capital.
- A dead ball.
- The dead of night; the dead of winter.
- Prayers were recited for the dead.
- dead right; dead tired.
- He stopped dead.
- The island lay dead ahead.
- Our plans to expand the business have been dead in the water for the past two months.
- The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- Have respect for the dead.
- All of my grandparents are dead.
- dead air
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- He is dead to me. I will think of you as dead, until my husband makes you that way. Then I will think of you no longer. - Mary, Rob Roy
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- The dead load on the floor a dead lift .
- dead air a dead glass of soda.
- dead time dead fields
- OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire. Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched. Is this beer glass dead?
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
- dead stop dead sleep dead giveaway dead silence
- dead center dead aim a dead eye a dead level
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead, mister!"
- A dead floor
- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
- The dead spindle of a lathe
- dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead leftHe hit the target dead in the centre.
- dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty;
- dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still