lifelessly

Example Sentences

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Teammates remembered him sitting up and joking 15 minutes after he collapsed lifelessly to the court.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024

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

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

His yellow eyes stared lifelessly at the clouds, and flies collected on his open mouth.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson