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

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

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

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

From The Guardian • May 9, 2016

And when Denethor descended again he went to Faramir and sat beside him without speaking, but the face of the Lord was grey, more deathlike than his son’s.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien