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

Failing to turn friendship with an aristocratic young woman into something more, a despondent Guy wills himself into a deathlike sleep, eventually awakening in a seemingly idyllic socialist future.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

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

A deathlike silence now hung over both sides of the vast camp.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom