deathly
Example Sentences
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“A lot of people are deathly afraid of losing all their money,” Perkins told me, back at his Austin, Texas, compound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
The atmosphere among those who came to mourn the tragedy was deathly quiet.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
He could have been totally fine, or he could have gotten deathly ill.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2025
As he struggled with a system, which aimed to preserve secrecy and deepen separation, he didn’t know about a deathly further dimension to the institutional inhumanity.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
His clothes got grimy and old, and he was deathly afraid he smelled.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
