How To Use Deathly In A Sentence

I thought my deathly pale face made me look awful. The Sun
This time the swoon was a deathly one, and did not yield easily. Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
I was shattered to see how the disease had extended its deathly grip.
Her usually rosy cheeks were now pinched and deathly pale.
The first turned deathly pale and shot a quick glance at the other.

The red eyes were bright and swollen from crying, and the white skin was deathly pale from the cold.
When he walked into a room, it went a deathly quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Her nails are short and not in the least scary, there is no electric tan, deathly blonde hair or sticky lipstick.
Spring allergies will be mistaken for deathly disease and your runny nose will make you a social pariah.
The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook.
There was little or no traffic and there was a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently.
She looked deathly pale but there was no sign of blood. The Glasgow Girls
Here she is in November 2010, going short and sexy at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I.
His words landed like a bomb. After the explosion there was just a deathly quiet, the engine throbbing softly.
So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications. Murder at Bridge
There was a deathly hush for most of the night as their team gave the fans little to get excited about. The Sun
It's too vaulty and therefore insufficiently claustrophobic, but it's boring verging on deathly. Times, Sunday Times
The deathly pallor of her skin had been replaced by the faintest flush of color.
Every time she spoke, her voice sounded so loud against the deathly hush.
A deathly silence hung over the square.
Her breathing became shallow and ragged, while her face began to pale to a deathly white.
Looking over at her properly for the first time since getting into her car, he noticed her slim body was rigid with tension, her knuckles white from holding the steering wheel in a deathly grip.
One crude stretcher stood next to the other," he wrote, "and all were occupied by moaning, sweating, deathly pale men, who were gasping for breath in the thick atmosphere of excrement and iodoform. 'Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization'
Sharon went deathly pale and looked as if she might faint.
Just a thimbleful of such water is sufficient to transform a healthy person, in hours, into a deathly ill cholera sufferer.
the night was deathly cold
Finally it subsided; I was deathly white. Times, Sunday Times
He turned around, his eyes searching hers in that way he had, their crimson depths revealing nothing but a deathly shimmer and a redolence of something lost.
No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly. ɘloЯ
a deathly pallor
My face turned from cherry red to a deathly white.
There was little or no traffic and there was a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
The following morning, he recalls the deathly silence that consumed New York City, "as if saying something would have been disrespectful to the 2,500 people or so who died. Michael Smerconish: The Face of Sept 11, 2001
“One crude stretcher stood next to the other,” he wrote, “and all were occupied by moaning, sweating, deathly pale men, who were gasping for breath in the thick atmosphere of excrement and iodoform.” Human Smoke
Friday's encounters had been played out in front of banks of empty seats and a deathly hush.
All the lush greenstuff seemed to be issuing its sap, till the air was deathly, sickly with the smell of greenness. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
His face flushed from glimmering blue-white to a deathly pale grey, like a dying flower watched in time-lapse photography.
Each stanza is separated by an interlude for the horn, which sounds a deathly fanfare for the wounded and dying of Sitwell's poem.
A deathly hush followed the explosion.
Emma Watson looks great in that picture. i cant wait for the deathly hallows. This week's cover: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's costars does he find the most difficult? His hair. | EW.com
She looked deathly pale but there was no sign of blood. The Glasgow Girls
The first thing that frightened me was the pale sallow color of my skin, which I originally thought was from my extreme and deathly loss of blood.
The wrong one can make you look deathly. Times, Sunday Times
He placed a deathly cold hand over her mouth, keeping her from crying out.
He soon began to fidget nervously, partly because his body kept staring at him, and partly because of the deathly silence.
He pulled his face mask up and marched into the deathly cold mountain air.
Painfully loud, deathly quiet, gospel as not-gospel with gospel singers, they were a rush and a thrill, sonic joys for sonic joys and sonic depths for sonic depths.
She was deathly pale, and looked as if she might faint.
There was a deathly hush for most of the night as their team gave the fans little to get excited about. The Sun
A kind of deathly, phony calm descends at moments like that.
She makes dubstep, a genre sometimes deathly serious and dour, seem like fun. Times, Sunday Times
The hall was hushed to a deathly silence as he began to talk, his voice full of authority.
It's at the wedding where Harry meets Luna Lovegood's father Xenophilius Lovegood and sees Viktor Krum again and he sees the symbol for the deathly hallows, which is kind of important! ‘Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’ Strays From Book, Adds Scene » MTV Movies Blog
The little green digits on the clock read one in the morning, and I am deathly tired.
She makes dubstep, a genre sometimes deathly serious and dour, seem like fun. Times, Sunday Times
The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is a magnet drawing lost sheep home and keeping would-be strays from the deathly snows outside. Protestantism
Maeve was thankful though that he had some meat on his body even though it was little and he always looked deathly sick.
Human forms looked big and heavy against the deathly pale gray. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
There was a sudden deathly hush.
Save for their footsteps, which echoed in the darkness, it was deathly silent.
The hallways are deathly silent and the misery is a palpable living thing in the air.
It was the middle of August, but the house was deathly cold. The Sun
Lloyd said he started kayaking partly to beat a "deathly" fear of the water. News RSS
Among gnarling branches there sprouted round, deathly pale berries the size of his head and even larger and from them emitted a stench like decay. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
Her face was deathly pale, but she managed a small smile in Tom's direction.
She spun around and gave him a glare so deathly that he turned pale and blacked out.
Her face was deathly pale underneath the rouge and the dark lipstick.
One passenger said: 'She turned a deathly shade of pale. The Sun
Just then, a gust of wind rocked the ship; Isaac stumbled backwards, falling against a deckchair, his whole face a deathly shade of white.
I was deathly cold and must have looked exceptionally pale in the dark room.
Suddenly the stadium falls into a deathly cold and the lights begin to flicker.
This location's far back from the main road, so it's deathly quiet, which only adds to the general eeriness.
After he had spoken, a deathly silence/hush fell on the room.
To me, it is deathly dull. Times, Sunday Times
The controversial goal capped a second half that was as thrilling as the first had been deathly dull. Times, Sunday Times
He went / turned deathly pale at the news.
She dropped to the ground, sword unsheathed lying next to her waiting for the right moment to strike the deathly blow.
When the speaker is stumped by a question there is nothing but deathly silence as they consulted their notes.
Suitably chastened, the woman returned to her seat, and all four sat down in deathly silence until the plane landed.
Time Warner stock isn’t moving for a reason (he said unhappily since he still owns the shit-on-a-certificate): cable will shrink v. the internet; magazines are stagnant; aol is hot again only compared to how deathly cold it was … IAds « BuzzMachine
I shrink with bone-chilling horror at the deathly shroud of moribund prose that dangles limply from the author's limblike arms, as he threatens ominously to envelopingly enwrap me in it ... or it in me. Archive 2006-08-01
There was a deathly hush after she made the announcement.
he was deathly pale
A deathly silence hung over the town.
It just went deathly quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Neither love, this, nor abduction; deathly beauty -- harsh seduction -- gem-hard, frozen firecrest adorns the queen of winter's breast and from some cigarette in bed her heat will dance, and wail, and spread Courted: a dirge (funded!)
These days, it's deathly quiet. Times, Sunday Times
The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
There are one hundred fifty-one children in some kind of deathly stupor, all stacked up in coffins within the ship. A Fire Upon the Deep
Then he felt his body go into shock, as a deathly cold hand clamped to his neck.
She was deathly pale, and looked as if she might faint.
She was tall and deathly skinny, Asian, but with really pale acne pocked skin and black rimmed glasses that matched her long straight hair.
It was deathly quiet; the suburbs were all but abandoned as the city center crumbled and burned.
I was deathly afraid of spirits, and possession in particular, due a lifelong sensitivity and some not too nice encounters as a child.
The wrong one can make you look deathly. Times, Sunday Times
There was space between the tables to move and breathe, easy light, quietness without a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
There was space between the tables to move and breathe, easy light, quietness without a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
The songs are, with a few mid-paced riffing excursions along the way, deathly slow.
The residue of the hideous past days and nights was in the slightly swollen lids, and the deathly pallor of her cheeks. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Henry, after the requisite period of lying deathly pale in bed and mopping his face on the sheets, recovers.
The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
The wrong one can make you look deathly. Times, Sunday Times
I do the weekly shop because it's deathly quiet. Times, Sunday Times
He is losing to it, to our twenty-four-hour-a-day pie fight, to the dizzying cut and the disorienting edit, to the message of fragmentation, to the flicker and pulse and shudder and strobe, to the constant, hivey drone of the electroculture ... and yet still he fights, deathly afraid that the medium he chose is consuming the very things he tried to protect: childhood and silence. Mandy Stadtmiller dot com
Despite the newscaster's promise of sun, it was deathly cold in her room.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his faced lost all expression.
All he was aware of was the deathly cold of the gun barrel.
Cautiously, he rolled her over to find her face pale, deathly white.
Marvel seems to be deathly afraid of any controverse. Censored Essentials?
This wrought he so that anon not even she might be unconversant with a mortal bed, and might not some day with sweet laughter make her boast among all the Gods, the smiling Aphrodite, that she had given the Gods to mortal paramours, and they for deathless Gods bare deathly sons, and that she mingled Goddesses in love with mortal men. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
All of us need something to poetize and idealise our life a little - something which we value for more than its use and which is a symbol of our emancipation from the mere materialism and deathly drudgery of daily life. Great Regulars: All of us in India seem to be passing through
There was a deathly hush after she made the announcement.
The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is a magnet drawing lost sheep home and keeping would-be strays from the deathly snows outside. Protestantism
There was space between the tables to move and breathe, easy light, quietness without a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
Her eyes were dull with sorrow and her cheeks would have been deathly pallid if not for the rogue she heavily slathered onto her cheeks.
The room had suddenly become deathly silent except for the sound of the band and the swish of skirts across the floor.
Bart, I think even you can agree that the "right" way to resolve these disagreements doesn't involve a midnight call on a deathly sick man to get his signature on a piece of paper that can then be used to lie to the telecoms that the president is complying with the law in wantonly wiretapping everything in sight? would that be a fair statement? and please elaborate on how suspecting the Acting Attorney General of flat out lying about a conversation he had with Ashcroft is consistent with Bush's notion of bringing honor and integrity back to the WH. Balkinization
She thwacked a lonesome pebble into the until now deathly still waters of the picturesque campus lake with a black platform trainer which could have had a brick wedged between sole and tread but at least made her an inch taller.
In some cases, where the cause or politician is a bit more authoritarian in stripe, the weirdness comes from the deathly serious tense tight-lipped intolerant besuited clones who populate the gathering, or the Stepford-like blandness of the party faithful. Slightly smeary article about ron paul
Kiamo Ko was deathly still, except for old Nanny's labored breathing as she took a catnap in her rocking chair. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
She makes dubstep, a genre sometimes deathly serious and dour, seem like fun. Times, Sunday Times
In the span of a few short minutes, her skin had become a ghastly shade of blue and she felt deathly cold.
In an otherwise deathly dull contest, the spectacle of the siblings slogging it out for the top job has provided a modicum of entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
There was a deathly hush for most of the night as their team gave the fans little to get excited about. The Sun
As an adult I've always kept firmly out of the sun and my skin has remained deathly pale as a result.
Bower, who played a dark wizard in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II and Caius in Twilight: New Moon, was recently in the TVGuide.com studios promoting his Starz series Camelot. Harry Potter's Jamie Campbell Bower and Bonnie Wright Are Engaged
There was little or no traffic and there was a deathly hush. Times, Sunday Times
I was shattered to see how the disease had extended its deathly grip.
The insurance sector is no longer the strict preserve of the deathly dull and has been setting the pulses running for much of the City's smart money. Times, Sunday Times
The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination.
Pakistan's Afghan-border region — 1,000 miles long and 100 miles wide — is a deathly volcanic landscape of crags and winding canyons where the tropical floor of the Subcontinent pushes upward into the high, shaved wastes of Central Asia, and where desert and mountain tribesmen replace the darker-skinned people in the cities. The Lawless Frontier
May become deathly pale if the room is overheated; kick off the bed covers if they are able to.
She turned a deathly shade of white when she heard the news.
Any sense of trepidation surrounding Haneke’s vision of a post-apocalyptic existence is heightened by his movie’s title sequence, which unfolds in deathly silence, white words on a black screen, and lasts for what seems like an eternity. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
However, his long hair was snowy white, his face deathly pale and smooth.
Combining a slow motor, a simple system of pulleys, and a deathly amount of fun (and almost as much electricity), this ghoul will be the “life” of your Halloween party. Boing Boing
So it ` s a defense mechanism, what he ` s doing, and he ` s telling the press that the children are deathly terrorized, and that word "deathly" says a lot. CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007
His face turned deathly pale.
Sharon went deathly pale and looked as if she might faint.
Finally it subsided; I was deathly white. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes narrowed to slits and the air about them grew cold, and deathly still.
And although I'm deathly afraid of what will happen to our Habitat Club when you're gone, and I'm also frustrated that my sister won't have to suffer through all the beautiful misery that I went through of last year, I feel, most of all, pity for the incoming freshmen, because they really will have no idea what they missed out on. Grace Li: A Teacher, An Inspiration
Bernadette turned deathly pale.
Had my parents tried to pack me off for a week of physical activities I should have fixed them with a deathly stare and screamed for hours.
In fact it is deathly cold within the concrete grey triangular structure.
I was kind of scared he'd attack me, and I'm deathly shy around adults I don't know.
True artistic integrity is stultified by the deathly embrace of marketing.
True, in the original the eyes were terrifying and unblinking and deathly, but what if we popped some guyliner around the edges and made them ocean blue?
Human forms looked big and heavy against the deathly pale gray. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Friends now accept my diet as part of my personality, although many still find my choices deathly dull. Times, Sunday Times
I simply dropped to my knees next to her and held her hand, trying to get some warmth into that deathly cold body.
Her daughter-in-law was deathly pale, looking as if she would faint.
Her face was deathly pale.
His fair, wind blown, hair contrasted sharply against his deathly pair skin.
She went deathly pale.
Prince Zilah, wandering solitary in the midst of crowded Paris, was possessed by one thought, one image impossible to drive away, one name which murmured eternally in his ears -- Marsa; Marsa, who was constantly before his eyes, sometimes in the silvery shimmer of her bridal robes, and sometimes with the deathly pallor of the promenader in the garden of The French Immortals Series — Complete
By half past 10, when the president finally shuffled on to the stage, a deathly hush swept the square. Egypt's day of rumour and expectation ends in anger and confusion
But Lindsay Anderson was nowhere to be found, and Michael (the only living being in school who was taller than Matilda) was gazing down at her unibrow with a deathly serious expression.
The bottom line: we have to change the rules to make companies deathly afraid of producing dishonest numbers, as we have to make accountants mortally afraid of certifying them.
Kiamo Ko was deathly still, except for old Nanny's labored breathing as she took a catnap in her rocking chair. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.
She turned her head to regard him with a deathly frosty gaze.
It ' s not a good sign, or portent, or whatever, that the only affecting character in " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 " proves to be the emancipated elf Dobby, a bandy-legged, floppy-eared, scrawny-necked and mostly digital creature — based on Toby Jones ' s performance — who yanks really hard at your heartstrings in his hour of distress. '
The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.
The book, one of seven in existence, is referenced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. SF Tidbits for 12/15/07
I do the weekly shop because it's deathly quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Away in smoke go the lordships, the Rabbi-hoods of the world, and the man who acquiesces in the burning is saved by the fire; for it has destroyed the destructible, which is the vantage point of the deathly, which would destroy both body and soul in hell. Unspoken Sermons Series One
She simply goes deathly quiet - a bad sign. Times, Sunday Times
Looking around the web today, you'd think half the world's bloggerati had overdosed on fizzing whizbees, so palpable is the hysteria over the new trailer for the penultimate part of the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer is here. Break out the fizzing whizbees
He looked deathly pale now. The Glasgow Girls
Cautiously, he rolled her over to find her face pale, deathly white, and covered with blood.
I was deathly afraid of marriage. The Sun
The cover is also rather joyous to behold: in repro, it looks like a deathly shade of mustard but it’s actually sheeny shiny gold foil so each book looks like a block of bullion! Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five Interview: Victoria Holmes and FIRESTAR’S QUEST
as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes
I'm deathly afraid of the roads that lead to Corcoran. Times, Sunday Times
But if you're expecting deathly cold, forget it. The Sun
In an otherwise deathly dull contest, the spectacle of the siblings slogging it out for the top job has provided a modicum of entertainment. Times, Sunday Times

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