DECEASED in a Sentence

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42 example sentences for DECEASED, such as:

1. The deceased general was a great soldier.
2. The deceased shot her mother before killing herself.
3. The autopsy revealed that the deceased had been hit with a blunt instrument.
4. The Qingming Festival is an opportunity to remember and honour our deceased ancestors.
5. The deceased was an American gentleman who had been residing for some weeks in the Metropolis.

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 Meanings and Examples of DECEASED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deceased
 n.  someone who is no longer alive
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The Socialists had many branches in America, and the deceased had, no doubt, infringed their unwritten laws, and been tracked down by them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  The deceased was an American gentleman who had been residing for some weeks in the Metropolis.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  Every effort should be made to find the secretary, Stangerson, and to ascertain some particulars of the habits of the deceased.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
4  It seems that both the victims belonged, in their younger days, to the Latter Day Saints, and Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
5  We will meet," he said to Ivanhoe, "at Coningsburgh, the castle of the deceased Athelstane, since there thy father Cedric holds the funeral feast for his noble relation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  It bore no emblem of the deceased's birth or quality, for armorial bearings were then a novelty among the Norman chivalry themselves and, were totally unknown to the Saxons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  But above the gate was another banner, on which the figure of a white horse, rudely painted, indicated the nation and rank of the deceased, by the well-known symbol of Hengist and his Saxon warriors.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  The wealth and consequence of the deceased Athelstane, occasioned this custom to be observed in the fullest extent.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Dr. James Mortimer, the friend and medical attendant of the deceased, has given evidence to the same effect.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
10  Henri Fournaye and Eduardo Lucas were really one and the same person, and that the deceased had for some reason lived a double life in London and Paris.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
11  Permit me, I say, to inquire why you enumerate the talents of the deceased, seeing that they are all of them dead, and that therefore there can be no sense in doing so.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
12  Finally he extracted a much-scribbled document in which the names of the deceased peasants lay as close-packed as a cloud of midges, for there were a hundred and twenty of them in all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
13  Also, in Sobakevitch's list there was recorded who had been the father and the mother of each of the deceased, and how those parents had behaved themselves.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
14  He went to Tver to see Joseph Alexeevich's widow, who had long since promised to hand over to him some papers of her deceased husband's.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
15  For the last two days, ever since leaving home, Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdeev.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  The deceased general was a great soldier.
2  The autopsy revealed that the deceased had been hit with a blunt instrument.
3  The Qingming Festival is an opportunity to remember and honour our deceased ancestors.
4  The deceased shot her mother before killing herself.
5  The relatives who received little or nothing sought to invalidate the will by claiming that the deceased had not been in his right mind when he had signed the document.