drop-dead gorgeous

Example Sentences

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Yes, a Little Free Flowery: a home with a yard full of flowers where they set out scissors and vases and ribbons and people can take home a drop-dead gorgeous bouquet.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Former teen idol Victoria Justice is drop-dead gorgeous — with the emphasis on “dead” — in the 2021 fantasy comedy “Afterlife of the Party.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2021

My new girlfriend is kind, reliable, clever, and drop-dead gorgeous.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2021

Not only was Ian an astonishingly compelling actor – which I didn’t feel I was – he was drop-dead gorgeous and I wasn’t.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2019

Sometimes the pairings are drop-dead gorgeous, as when Frank Stella’s orange-striped star-shaped painting “Port Tampa City,” from 1963, hangs above a copper Andre.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2015