deathlike
Example Sentences
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But the biggest draw might be the deathlike stench when they open—and people are willing to wait hours to catch a whiff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
If you know anything about Burton’s movies, you know that they tend to feature characters who embody all the qualities of a sickly Victorian-era child: waifish, sunken doe-eye and gaunt faces with a deathlike pallor.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
Inside the field hospital at Azovstal, the wounded soldiers looked pale and deathlike.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
A woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all around.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016
And when Denethor descended again he went to Faramir and sat beside him without speaking, but the face of the Lord was grey, more deathlike than his son’s.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
