deathlike

Example Sentences

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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

In the lower one, the deceased Virgin lies in deathlike sleep amid a gathering of apostles.

From New York Times • May 16, 2018

A woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all around.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2016

“There is a silence of deathlike stillness that gets on the nerves, and the sameness is wearisome.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2015

Many creatures sensed the approach of the slithering evil, or scented its dry, musty, deathlike odor.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques