deadness
Example Sentences
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"There was one point where there was a visible kind of deadness in the shipmates' eyes", he recalls.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
In 2014, England lost to Italy and Uruguay before drawing 0-0 with Concacaf’s Costa Rica in an episode of a deadness that felt deader than dead.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2018
The employees of Keith’s Classic Furniture, a secondhand furniture store, discuss the mall’s precise state of deadness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
“There’s as much obvious natural wealth here as poverty there. There’s as much hope in the future here as there is hopelessness in everything there, as much life here as there is petrified deadness there.”
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2017
Peace lay on Devon like a blessing, the summer’s peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire’s response to all the cogitation and deadness of winter.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
