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deathlike

ADJECTIVE
  1. having the physical appearance of death
    a deathly pallor

How To Use deathlike In A Sentence

  • Hester's face is an almost deathlike pale mask.
  • My heartbeat felt as if it would rip my limbs apart with its dangerous, heavy, deathlike thumping. Good Fortune
  • When Georgiana recovered consciousness, she found herself breathing an atmosphere of penetrating fragrance, the gentle potency of which had recalled her from her deathlike faintness.
  • That's why I sank into a deathlike peace one recent night in Northern Ontario, as midnight ushered in the longest day of the year.
  • I woke from deathlike sleep to find desolation all around me, but no Chaos. The Night Of the Solstice
  • It is said to take you to both a deathlike coma and a lively rapture. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
  • Because in the face of all this death and deathlike cynicism, love is the one impulse in our repertoire that says the world is unfinished.
  • The room immediately hushed into a deathlike stillness, ‘We shall listen to the rest of the facts before we judge.’
  • Standing motionless fifty paces from the little storm-beaten cabin that represented Law at this loneliest outpost on the American continent, he looked like a carven thing of dun-gray rock, with a dun-gray world over his head and on all sides of him, broken only in its terrific monotony of deathlike sameness by the darker gloom of the sky and the whiter and ghostlier gloom that hung over the ice-fields. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail
  •   He had even seen them: affectless men and women with a deathlike pallor, high nasal voices, and the characteristic drooping at the chin. Zombie, Attorneys at Law
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