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Sentences with dead

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  • 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
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