DEAD in a Sentence

Learn DEAD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

377 example sentences for DEAD, such as:

1. The wind rustled the dead leaves.
2. Call no man happy before he is dead.
3. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
4. We don't know whether he's alive or dead.
5. He's grieving over his dead wife and son.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dead
 a.  no longer alive
 ad.  absolutely; completely
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Yes, and dead, poor thing," said Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Scarlett had wept with despair at the knowledge that she was pregnant and wished that she were dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Now that Charles was dead, her place and her son's place were with his kindred.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  I'm not dead enough for you to pull down the shades--though I might as well be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  And I'd rather they'd both be dead than here at home-- Oh, darling, I'm sorry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  But it was not of dead Charles she was thinking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  I just couldn't believe my eyes, and poor Charlie hardly dead a year.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  "Oh," mumbled Pitty, helplessly, looking as if she wished she were dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  The Confederacy had scored a smashing victory, at Fredericksburg and the Yankee dead and wounded were counted in the thousands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  If I didn't have such big feet I could get them off dead Yankees like the other boys, but I've never yet found a Yankee whose feet were near as big as mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  Fanny must have had a beau and now he was dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  And Boyd, dead the first year of the war, was buried God knew where in Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
16  Yesterday is dead, forget it; tomorrow does not exist, don't worry; today is here, use it.
17  We don't know whether he's alive or dead.
18  He's grieving over his dead wife and son.
19  He was in deep mourning for his dead wife.
20  He built a chapel as a shrine to the memory of his dead wife.
21  It's a dead certainty that this horse will win the race.
22  The wind rustled the dead leaves.
23  He prophesied that within five years his opponent would either be dead or in prison.
24  Nothing more was heard from him so that we began to wonder if he was dead.
25  An explosion at a chemical plant has left one worker dead and four injured.
26  Call no man happy before he is dead.
27  A living dog is better than a dead lion.
28  Yeah, I once put a dead snake on the tracks so I thought we should know about that too.
29  Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
30  The management decided to economise by cutting the dead wood from the workforce, thus reducing the wages bill.