How To Use Cadaverous In A Sentence

  • You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down.
  • Obama was always far more popular than the cadaverous Mr. Nelson. Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer
  • When she looked at him again, her face was cadaverous.
  • Here, when you enter his gloomy penetralia, and invoke his services, the sable-clad and cadaverous- featured shopman asks you, in a sepulchral voice-we are not writing romance, but simple fact - whether you are to be suited for inextinguishable sorrow, or for mere passing grief; and if you are at all in doubt upon the subject, he can solve the problem for you, if you lend him your confidence for the occasion. . . Archive 2008-06-01
  • They were Asian men, the officers saw, diminutive and cadaverously thin. ‘The Snakehead’
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  • He'd been trying to quit for years, did so on and off, and his face would lose some of that cadaverous look for a few months. DOLL'S EYES
  • Later, they would fall out over Louisa's desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the "cadaverous" pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband's puritan sensibilities. The Harvard Crimson | All Articles
  • We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons.
  • He'd been trying to quit for years, did so on and off, and his face would lose some of that cadaverous look for a few months. DOLL'S EYES
  • Its cadaverous Borg villains are depersonalized members of a cybernetically unified mind. World Wide Mind
  • Here too, there was an urgent and primal need to manage the dark, yet in our night, tonight, the quiet darkness outside is replaced by a frantic and cadaverous light, and an overheated, yet archaic buzz.
  • A cadaverous waiter appeared, stooped to pick up the fork and soon replaced it with another. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
  • His face seemed to have grown longer, too, more cadaverous; his eye had an absent, inturned expression. The Way Home
  • When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
  • Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk.
  • She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
  • But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving.
  • Good answer, because at that moment — 8: 15, give or take — Mr. Lagerfeld himself was making his way cadaverously to the party. Bleeding for Zaha: Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld Can Only Hope to Contain Her
  • Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair.
  • He himself had acquired a cadaverous appearance; a shrinking manikin within his leather and steel-scale carapace.
  • Perhaps elderly and cadaverous with a fluting voice and archaic views.
  • She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
  • I'm an ectomorph with medium ash brown hair that I'm always ruining by dyeing it (so it always has garish brassy orange tones), brown eyes that I sometimes conceal with grey contacts, and cadaverously fair skin.
  • The door opened and Dr Aziz, a tall cadaverous man entered. A SEASON IN HELL
  • Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma.
  • A cadaverous waiter appeared, stooped to pick up the fork and soon replaced it with another. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
  • Such carrots! small, cadaverous, brick-coloured things, no bigger than a cork, as dry, as masticable, and, still like a cork, with little save a _smell_ to commend their indulgence. The Siege of Kimberley
  • A summer's prospecting, filled to repletion with hardship and rather empty of grub, had left their clothes in tatters and themselves worn and cadaverous. Too Much Gold
  • Strings of spittle hanging from pointed teeth to lower lip reflected moonshine as the cadaverous head arched skywards.
  • Inchoate skin mucous membrane is damaged (sore of first phase, 2 period mildew) can check cadaverous helicoid.
  • Jake Cornell, hirsute and cadaverous of aspect, nodded his head with emphasis and deposited a corpulent demijohn on the table. CHAPTER 20
  • For a chef, he looks cadaverously under-nourished.
  • He works within a narrower spectrum, bringing to life a series of monologues for inter-related and cadaverously fleshed-out dummies.
  • One of the lads is looking a bit cadaverous these days.
  • Vampires uncloaked, from ‘Nosferatu’ to ‘Twilight’ www. buffalonews.com: He was a tall, cadaverous old man with white hair and eyebrows so bushy they almost created a unibrow. VAMPIRE TOURS AND VAMPIRES UNCLOAKED! | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
  • A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
  • If you can't laugh at Anthony van Dyck's boozed-up cavaliers, Thomas Gainsborough's cadaverous, blue-faced debutantes or Damien Hirst's 13-foot shark in a few thousand gallons of formaldehyde, you're really missing out on some great fun. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
  • Haggard, frayed and cadaverously pale with his eyes sunk somewhere deep in the back of his skull, in the final scene he looks like someone who is about to die.
  • These benighted souls have no idea how cadaverous and ghostly their ‘sanity’ appears as the intense throng of Dionysiac revelers sweeps past them p. World Wide Mind
  • She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
  • An alarmed octopus or one that is near death turns a cadaverous gray.
  • Wilner saw him changed by the hunger strike from a happy, outgoing, strongly pro-American young man to a withdrawn, cadaverous, weak figure.
  • Roy, who'd been on the tour too, thinner and even more cadaverous now, had been Eddie's keeper. THE GOLDEN LION
  • By contrast, he chose to portray the character as ailing: cadaverously thin and pale with flushed cheeks and clawlike fingers.
  • Six foot tall, slim and with a deceptive unassuming air, his blond hair and cadaverous cheek bones say rampant sex drive packaged as boy next door.
  • Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book? The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
  • I had seen photographs of him in magazines---a cadaverous dandy with a cap of bootblack hair scraped back from his bony brow. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Roy, who'd been on the tour too, thinner and even more cadaverous now, had been Eddie's keeper. THE GOLDEN LION
  • I now have new images whenever I see a cadaverous academic.
  • Victims suffered from bad breath, a loathsome cadaverous stink from within according to one contemporary, and other symptoms included high fever, acute stomach pains and bluish black spots on the body.
  • I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
  • we had long anticipated his cadaverous end
  • He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
  • He was also gaunt and cadaverous, and as dark as the Semitic people of the Holy Land.
  • Tonight, he seemed cadaverous and oddly unresponsive, almost catatonic.
  • He was impressively tall, cadaverously thin, yet upright and youthful-looking for his age, clean shaven and silver-haired, with high, prominent cheekbones and a large aquiline nose. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
  • Her cadaverous face drives her parents and friends to despair, but even so she refuses to feed herself. Dreamseller: The Calling
  • I saw a cadaverous face appear at a small window.
  • Those hells are therefore named accordingly; some are called cadaverous, some stercoraceous, some urinous, and so on. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
  • When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
  • Before he went, he formally thanked his wife -- who hardly spoke to him unless she was obliged -- for her attention to his mother, and then lingered a little, looking no less "cadaverous," certainly, than when he had gone away, and apparently desiring to say more. Sir George Tressady — Volume II
  • In the past I was used to seeing a statue or banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe hanging from a bus's rear-view mirror, but now often the cadaverous figure of La Santa Muerte has become more and more common. Superstition
  • The door opened and Dr Aziz, a tall cadaverous man entered. A SEASON IN HELL
  • The body's face was cadaverous and melting, the eyes the only prominent feature.
  • Next to my large and robust American seat mates, I must have looked positively cadaverous.
  • Its cadaverous Borg villains are depersonalized members of a cybernetically unified mind. World Wide Mind
  • I keep thinking the word cadaverous but I know that’s wrong because I just like saying cadavers. Super-suzan Diary Entry
  • I'm an ectomorph with medium ash brown hair that I'm always ruining by dyeing it (so it always has garish brassy orange tones), brown eyes that I sometimes conceal with grey contacts, and cadaverously fair skin.
  • Instead of looking as pale and cadaverous as a ghost, my countenance is as ruby as the face of a whiskey toper, simply because I get pure air to breathe.
  • But a cadaverous light does suffuse her brushy work.

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