lifelessly

Example Sentences

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She was still wearing her maroon traditional garb, her arms falling lifelessly from the white sheet that barely covered her.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022

It’s been 60 years since Marilyn Monroe was discovered on Aug. 5, 1962, in her bed in her Brentwood home, her hand draped lifelessly over the phone.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2022

In his review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the new movie as "overwhelmingly mediocre and pointless, contrived and lifelessly convoluted to the point of gibberish".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2022

Now lifelessly orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres after running out of fuel in late 2018, Dawn documented the geology of Vesta from 2011 to 2012.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2021

Their hands dangle lifelessly by their sides as they watch Pa lead us away.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung