How To Use Deathlike In A Sentence
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Hester's face is an almost deathlike pale mask.
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My heartbeat felt as if it would rip my limbs apart with its dangerous, heavy, deathlike thumping.
Good Fortune
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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.
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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.
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I woke from deathlike sleep to find desolation all around me, but no Chaos.
The Night Of the Solstice
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It is said to take you to both a deathlike coma and a lively rapture.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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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.
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The room immediately hushed into a deathlike stillness, ‘We shall listen to the rest of the facts before we judge.’
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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
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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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Afraid someone will pounce upon me in the darkness, or tortured deathlike Mom, deprived of her life-giving medication, and in her dead moldy, gray-green shroud will come back again.
Jay's Journal
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When they had finished their work, they went to deathlike sleep.
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By now she had surfaced to consciousness enough that it was too late to fall back into the deathlike chasm of rest.
Nevermore
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The deathlike inactivity of the winter earth is only an illusion.
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I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
Chapter 9
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It's easy enough to include vampire vulnerabilities such as sunlight burning them, deathlike sleep during the day, or susceptibility to yummy buttered garlic bread.
Vulnerable Vampires
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She usually billed more hours than just about anyone else, which accounted for her deathlike pallor.
Zombie, Attorneys at Law
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And staring -- a deathlike cat she looked, with her staring distant eyes.
ON CATS
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Growth in "deathlike" places like Suffolk County, in Long Island, Orange County, N.Y., and Morris County, N.J., has been well over three times faster than the city.
The future of newspapers (cont'd) ...
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Her appearance was deathlike, and her look of despair very pitiful.
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So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night