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 US, one writer observed: “The very face of nature seemed to be shrouded in a deathlike gloom.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2021
Dr. Janov continued, “Finally, he released a piercing, deathlike scream that rattled the walls of my office,” adding: “All he could say afterward was: ‘I made it!
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
