deathlike

Example Sentences

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I think that part of what drove theater attendance this summer was a subconscious attraction to the deathlike repetition of timeless dreamworlds, whether underwater or plastered in pink.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2023

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

In the third canvas, she is gone and he lies in deathlike repose, eyes closed and hands clasped over his belt.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2011

I knew only that I would grow heavy with the burden, and one day deathlike pains would grip me until the creature sprang from my loins and cried to be cared for.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein