How To Use Dead In A Sentence

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.

Additional, wall, condole can choose deadening very, if mineral wool is sound-absorbing board wait.
Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
When Harry's turned on, his adrenaline flows and the endorphins pump, and he feels alive instead of dead.
The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
The plan is a dead duck: there's no money.
He was afraid of waking up in the morning and finding that Jessie was dead.
It will take away from the classic perspective of looking at city hall dead on.
Winter is traditionally the dead season for the housing market.
But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
My monitor fills with images of two men saluting, grinning thumbs up or looking dead serious.
An Iron Ancestor is a reanimated and iron - forged dead body possessed by a ghost.
The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
Ministers have spent nearly 500million stockpiling the antiviral drug in case of a deadly epidemic but there are doubts it is effective. The Sun
A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. The Frontier in American History
An explosion at a chemical plant has left one worker dead and four injured.
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Thailand and Cambodia said they have made progress in settling a border dispute that sparked a deadly military confrontation last month. My Sinchew -
April 15 is the deadline for filling individual income - tax returns.
He thought that it was a dead issue, he had dealt with that.
I immediately fell into a dead sleep.
Another argument that rates will rise is that inflation, long thought dead, has recently resurfaced.
AN autopsy on the body of a man found dead in a house has sparked a murder probe. The Sun
So they came on a day, and found this dead man at the sacring of his mass, and they abode him till he had said mass. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
George was diagnosed with the potentially deadly condition days after his second birthday.
At the sight of the dead animal, Diana blenched.
Survivors were forced to bury the dead in mass graves. Times, Sunday Times
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Now the fire itself wasn't very deadly, it was the smoke.
The woman was found dead with a rope round her neck.
The 37-year-old was unable to work after the first assault in July 2003 in which he was bottled, repeatedly kicked and left for dead in the town centre.
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
The lead found in captive condors and released condors with low levels in their blood had isotope ratios similar to lead found in dead livestock and wildlife that had not been killed by hunters.
Cavil, Doral and another Simon how long have you got buddy? find the dead doctor Simon and once again Cavil shows himself to be a pathetic military planner, he admits he "miscalculated" Boomer's actions. VARIANTS: DAYBREAK, PT II - REVIEW
Those of you too lazy to hit the last link won't understand this, but the key to a successful performance of this story is to remain deadpan. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
Each patrol day ends with uniforms soaked in sweat, and the soil of the deadland is powder under the hoofs of the patrol mounts, rising and infiltrating boots and uniforms, and leaving every lancer's skin dry and itchy from salt and sweat and dust. The Magi'i Of Cyador
If a series is trying to get it dead right, then it is on the researcher's integrity that the quality of the finished work depends.
A number of dead venomous snakes were also found in the property. Times, Sunday Times
In Tolkien's world, the only good orc is a dead orc. Archive 2009-07-01
The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak". Archive 2006-04-01
Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
The only element of the production that fails to satisfy is the heavily miked, synthesizer-dominated orchestra, which sounds artificial and dead. A 'King' That Is Full of Aces
The deadline for acceptance of the offer is Thursday afternoon, but both sides have claimed they have the upper hand in a takeover battle which is becoming increasingly bitter.
The wind and rain intensified as they watched the deadly twisters move towards them.
The forwards also seemed intent on glory as several rolling mauls were stopped dead in their tracks when the wingers were standing idle and unmarked on the flanks.
If you usually pinch back the dead flower heads, new ones will grow.
But if Nolan is dead, who did Smith see in Tay Ninh in 2005? Nolan, McKinley
Many of the characters in the book - the people he meets and attaches himself to along the way - will be dead in a decade.
So he argued against the rich being able to commemorate their war dead with ornate personal graves.
The movie would perhaps be better described as a suspenseful intrigue, but due to the inclusion of zombies, undead or not, it gets called "horror. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Police are still trying to establish the identity of the dead man.
My father is long dead and his death set me free, so it bothers me that he and his problem can still affect my adult life.
Even today, you still spend three days brain-dead before revival.
As a monstrous assassin closes in and forces them to run, Jessa will have to find another way to discover if Matthias is her greatest ally — or her deadliest enemy. 2009 September « Items of Interest
The prospect of having to pay a graduate tax until retirement would kill the students' enthusiasm stone dead.
Morrissey and the Duranies are back in the charts; the 20th anniversary edition of Purple Rain was released last week; and Band Aid are already being tipped as a dead cert for the Christmas number one spot.
They hurt for the wounded and the dead but they are eager to continue to attack.
There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine.
The dead and the dying were everywhere.
Offered second billing on the Whig Party ticket in 1848, Daniel Webster cracked, "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.
I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast. Cumberland, Part 3: Acting It Out
Remove really old stems and any dead, dying, diseased or damaged wood. The Sun
And the deadline for submitting the illustrations was getting uncomfortably close.
The attack came amid a major upsurge in violence across the country that has left a thousand dead.
An unnecessary signal: the radios had been dead since the crash landing.
The commander was an English gentleman Communist, the kind that he had come to think of as the deadliest. THE WHITE DOVE
He believes one of the reasons the move ended up dead in the water was that negotiations dragged on too long.
Everyone in this facility yields to the seven deadly sins… especially pride and vanity!
Now, more than ever before, the study of battles will involve a literal trampling upon dead men's bones.
Guards Danny Ainge and Dennis Johnson, deadeye marksmen in Los Angeles, came home to Beantown and took up masonry. One Season
She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
Purple coneflower, a favored plant of summer, finds a second season in the dead of winter.
I must say this is the first vacation I have never wanted to come back from, Hawai'i is drop dead gorgeous and I have been someplaces. Life on Uncle Merlin's Island
A bereaved couple allow their dead son to be cloned by a sinister scientific institute in this clunking supernatural thriller. Times, Sunday Times
The dead man has a Batman tattoo and a pierced navel.
They're monuments to dead climbers - not gravestones per se but carefully constructed shrines.
It is known that over 5,000 Sarmatians from this area came to Britain after the Marcomannic wars in AD 175; but it is unlikely that the people at Brougham were Sarmatians, as the latter inhumed their dead.
They love the series and some whitehats tell em they gotta do it in three movies and some bullshit tv series..which most likely wouldnt be hbo or the like they cancelled deadwood in three seasons because it was too expensive to produce. network tv adaptation would be a catastrophe and blasphamy..they deny it probably out of respect. Ron Howard to direct DARK TOWER movie trilogy
The purposes of this study were to report our experiences with high-energy wartime extremity wounds, to define the prevalence of heterotopic ossification in these patients, and to determine the factors that might lead to development of the condition," said lead author Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Agner Forsberg, MD. Dr. Forsberg and his team compared data from 243 patients who were treated for orthopaedic injuries between March 1, 2003 and December 31, 2006 at the medical center, including patients who underwent: amputation external or internal fixation of one or more fractures removal of damaged, dead or infected tissue, or 'debridement' EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The severity of the decree seemed deadly to Tess.
There were legions of zombie idlers in the malls, the dead and gutted malls with high vacancy rates that wouldn't be resolved anytime soon.
He becomes cold, heartless and an egotistical exhibitionist; much like the man that left him for dead.
On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. The U-boat hunters
He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer. Ulysses
The OED always gives the earliest known usage of the word and in this case it's, wait for it, Lord Lyttelton, 1760, Dialogues of the Dead. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Such is a part of tire strange medley that is before and around me; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising from the tops of these hundred "coal-pits," can be seen in distance, the green and boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous to the piquet which encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds, on which their "dead live", as they term it. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
` ` Weel, sirs, I am laith to enter into deadly fued with you by spilling ony of your bluid, though Earnscliff hasna stopped to shed mine The Black Dwarf
Dead bodies strewed the ground
I thought the mouse was dead, but then it gave a slight twitch.
At the city morgue, workers nailed together coffins and put some of the dead in an ambulance to transport them to cemeteries.
The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.
His features were deadpan but his voice was bursting with emotion.
Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. RVABlogs
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
Yet now he is dead, as dead as any ordinary pikeman who fought to hold back the Horde at the terminus of the Salmisti Bridge. Kingdoms of Light
The fix might be as simple as installing a controller to cut costs, increase prices, and hound deadbeat customers.
No, it would have been deadly and hugely dangerous. The Sun
'By gar,' he says, ''tis a disgrace to th' mim'ries iv thim devoted dead who died f'r their counthry, 'he says. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
If you are venturing further abroad, wild animals and insects can present a deadly danger and avoidance is usually the key. Times, Sunday Times
She stopped dead in her tracks like a scared rabbit when she saw us.
Castor oil comes from the bean but so does a powerful skin irritant, and a deadly poison called ricin.
Of course, " said Trifaldin; "they don't bury living people in Kandy, only the dead.
Necrotising fasciitis is a rare but potentially deadly bacterial infection that releases toxins which damage nearby tissue. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes we throw our seeds to them, but our efforts seem hopeless since their soil is barren, empty and dead.
Management have agreed to extend the deadline.
However, the developer "faulted" on their agreement with the city and the MEDC by failing to purchase the "transfer site" under the given deadline. Undefined
In conversation he speaks with the measured tone of a comic actor used to delivering deadpan one-liners. Times, Sunday Times
Despite his own aircraft being damaged, he glided back to base with a dead engine and crash-landed near Folkstone.
He turns me around, jerking my chin up to look into his dead, black eyes.
We were sleeping in our harnesses, also belayed to pitons and deadmen. The Viking Claw
Dead breathe I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead.
The horse came to a dead stop and threw its rider over the gate.
I hope you can submit you term papers before the deadline.
The world number one played a simple safety shot to leave the white ball on the bottom cushion and Doherty played the ball deadweight into the pack of reds.
It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one.
Still, analysts call the race dead even.
Seething, she planned to make a midnight visit to his own regimented acres at dead of night later in the summer. SANDS OF TIME
Friendless is the dead.
Therefore, agricultural, herding societies will carry deadlier germs than will hunter-gatherers or people that farm only plants.
Like a kid, Mr. Mailer was fascinated by his own naughtiness -- his earliest critics castigated him for the vulgarity of his language, though his editors insisted that he use the word "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead. A Boy's Life
A man dressed as an angel jumps through a hole in the ice, into a frozen lake, while taking part in the Polar Plunge at the "Frozen Dead Guy Days" festival in Nederland, Colorado March 10, 2007.
She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
Satisfied that no other bravos were abiding beyond it, he dragged the dead man by his sandaled feet into the room.
Made of Austenitic stainless steel. There is no dead angle, no concave - convex face.
History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
He studies the Forest for a time longer, until the sun begins to rise above the deadland and fields to his left, but the silent presence and lack of overt threat does not change. The Magi'i Of Cyador
The guys stood there in their dressy outfits and hair fixed and the girls stopped dead in their tracks.
It is always a good idea to take your mom to the vet shortly after whelping to be sure she has not retained a placenta or even a dead puppy that will need to be expelled.
Nosour ballouze for me s abig fan fo this game i think hey shuld end thiscrap mgswill not fit in a movie snake is dead so let the man rest inpeace Exclusive: Producer Mike De Luca Says It’s Game Over for a METAL GEAR SOLID Movie – Collider.com
the two factions are deadlocked over fringe benefits
She mourned for her dead child.
Iceberg dead ahead! SOS ! Man the lifeboats! We're going down! There, isn't that a comfort ?
Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
Though old-line, hard-line feminism has little appeal for today's women, its ideology lives on in law and policy - like light rays from a dead star.
Sam is the dead spit of his dad.
This dead-end dirt road follows a peaceful stretch of the Housatonic River and connects to the Appalachian Trail.
Unlike more advanced plants, fungi lack chlorophyll and so can only grow as saprophytes (from dead plants or animals); or as parasites (on living plants); or in a mycorrhizal relationship (symbiosis between fungi and the roots of trees).
Not all of these museums are dead and buried - or so optimists hope. Times, Sunday Times
Today, on the Sunday closest to what used to be called Armistice Day, thousands will gather around war memorials, in country churchyards and civic centres to remember the dead of armed conflicts since 1914.
A moment later, the dead boy's chest heaved in a last agonal gasp, a deep groan shuddering his body, his bed, my soul. Titrate until comfortable
Had the makers of Junior Scientist included chemicals so deadly they might destroy a house?
I look like an undead monster from a movie, Paul.
She uses wit with deadly effect.
The King is Dead is not a conventional scholarly monograph like those published by university presses and read by precious few. Times, Sunday Times
And she that is by them iudged to haue borne her self beste in that behaulfe, and to haue bene dierest to her husbonde: she in the beste maner and moste gorgeous that she can deuise, triumphing and reioysinge, getteth her vp vpon the funeralle pyle wher her housebandes corps lieth ready to be brente, and ther kissinge and embrasinge the deade body, is burned together with her housebande. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Evergreens, including carex and festuca, just need a little comb-through to clear away dead material and gathered gubbins. Times, Sunday Times
Will all the animal food manufacturers please stop using dead animals to feed others of the same species making our pets cannibals?
An elaborate send-off for the dead was also a social event, because a lavish funeral reflected on the living.
In "La muerte en el este de EdÃ©n/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers. Max Benavidez: ELAC's VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene
Looking back at my to-do list (previous post) it occurs to me that the whole point of getting the dratted deadline for Chill moved (it looks now as if it will be published for Fall 2009, so never fear; it is not being pushed back a full year) was so I could take some time off from novels and let my brain regrow. Re: Book sale paypal payments...
However, Jenkins said demands for reburial were now coming from minority groups in Britain, including pagans and druids, while Manchester consulted the group Honouring the Ancient Dead, which campaigns for reburial of pre-Christian British remains, before removing the Worsley Man head. Museums avoid displaying human remains 'out of respect'
He's dead set on getting a new job.
Most of the birds are half-dead from fear or the injuries they suffer, by the time they reach the destination.
*wonders if maus is rrilly dead, or onlee mostly dead* Yeah – you were rite Pete - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been _dead_ four days. The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young
They made fireless camps above timber line, thawing their meat rations with the heat of their bodies before they could eat .... weary ghosts in a dead world. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
Clients also need to accept realistic deadlines. Times, Sunday Times
Magda, his long-suffering wife, was the only person who knew his secret, and she is now dead.
Big SUVs and little kids, a dangerous and sometimes deadly combination in the family driveway.
After the respirator is disconnected, the camera pans over to the monitor as she gradually flatlines, followed by a close-up of Julia's dead hand being held by Sally Field. April 2004
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
He is looking for me and when he finds me he is going to feed me rice and gone off fish till I die as he knows I have not pooed in a week because he read my dead end blog.
Dollhouse – Rossum/Boyd is Dead – one episode to go « Show Me SciFi Dollhouse – Rossum/Boyd is Dead – one episode to go « Show Me SciFi
We do need to finally lay the dead to rest, to accept that mistakes were made that cannot be unmade, and to accept that the ‘blame game’ at this point in our history would be a futile exercise.
While he radiated innocence and virginity, Siterra radiated seductiveness, wildness, and deadliness.
When someone died, the kahuna aumakau (priest of the appropriate ancestral deity) of the dead person came and ritually sacrificed a pig or a chicken to ensure that the soul would live with its ancestors.
It has been widely called overlong, empty, boring, and deadpan.
It's been a dead easy week, radio-wise - just like having your own PR company working for you.
Now, the idea was officially kaput, finito, dead, dead, dead, killed, even before it could engage in combat.
The phenomenon is difficult to measure, St. Pierre and several others said, because the term jury nullification is rarely invoked; defendants with substantial evidence against them are simply acquitted, or juries deadlock. Thestar.com - Home Page
Similarly, third-party carriers are in a better position to reduce "deadhead" travel, which is any travel by trucks when they are empty. Crude Calculations
The present crisis on the docks illustrates the dead end of the nationalist and pro-capitalist policy of the trade union bureaucracy.
The woodland floor is dappled with sunlight, which makes it difficult to tell what is a mushroom and what is just a dead leaf.
Satimbe masks represents the women ancestors who, according to legend, first discover the role of the masks in escorting the spirits of the dead onto the path to the afterlife.
White has two ways of giving up a piece for the attack in the main line, and they're both looking as deadly as ever.
Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
See this fellow, rage in his face and heart, carrying by the legs his cock, deplumed and dead. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Oh, and by the way, despite various online rumours Neil is not dead ... he just has an art attack * boom boom* All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
The victim was pronounced dead on arrival.
It's undeniably beautiful, and you can almost ignore the deadly outline that remains. Times, Sunday Times
Mary threw away the dead flowers.
Liquid metal enters the crystallization cavity (19) through a cow horn shape water inlet (2) positioned at a dead point on the crystallization wheel (1).
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
Sara: I don’t think its deadliness is the issue — it’s that there is no long term storage The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Nuclear Option
The thought that she might be dead was too terrible to contemplate.
The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010). Emily Bennington: 'Entitled' to What, Being Unemployed?
He also sprinkles a ton of real Hollywood names throughout his book - and seems to be dead-on accurate with most of the way he uses those names.
A situation might call for an Arclite barrage from a division of siege tanks or a deadly battleship salvo of a targeted area.

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