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

“There’s something earthy and deathlike about the cello, isn’t there?”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

Dr. Janov had practiced psychology for nearly two decades when, during a session, a young patient emitted what Dr. Janov described as a “piercing, deathlike scream.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2017

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

From The Guardian • May 9, 2016

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

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques