deathlike

Example Sentences

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Deathlike silence now reigned there, but the nurse-agent only had to give her name to secure admittance.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Deathlike the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the herons Home to their roasts in the cedar-trees returning at sunset, Or by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Deathlike yet lovely, every feature speaking In such dear calm and beauty to my sadness, And cradled still the mother's heart, in breaking, The soft'ning love and the despairing madness.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

Deathlike silence reigned, broken only by murmurs of conversation from next door.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

Deathlike silence, broken only, as the phrase goes, by the ticking of the hall clock, and not a soul in sight.

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.