How to use "dead" in a sentence

If I don't get out of the way, I'm dead

By Thursday, I'll be dead

Then I tell them what to do with my dead body

That part of my arm must be dead

It's full of dead mosquitoes but I don't care

My job is to study everything dead or alive under the sea

I want it, dead or alive!"

They were going to bury the dead man.

Two of them were dead, and Doyle was only just alive.

Bubba was dead, the shrimp business idea was dead with him

'What is the news of that poor man Meltham? Is he dead yet?'

'No,' I told him, 'he's not dead yet

He was dead.

Meltham and I made sure that Slinkton was dead

The men looked at the woman, but in the darkness they did not know if she was drunk or dead

when some workmen rushed towards him and told him about the dead woman

He examined the dead woman and saw that she had a deep cut in her throat

He noted the dead woman's height - 1.57m - and guessed her age, about 42

He gazed into Fantine's eyes and knew immediately that she was dead.

On the night after the Battle of Waterloo, in June 1815, a robber moved quietly around the battlefield, stealing money and jewellery from the bodies of dead soldiers

He saw a hand sticking out from a pile of dead men and horses, a gold ring on its middle finger, shining in the moonlight

Marius took Javert's guns from his pockets and shot the soldier dead.

When the smoke cleared, there were many dead bodies on both sides

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

While the soldiers waited at the far end of the street for further orders, and the rebels removed dead bodies from the barricade and took care of the wounded, Marius walked around the stronghold in a kind of dream

'You must kiss me on the forehead after I'm dead..

So, the problem was solved! The man who threatened his happiness was going to die - was perhaps already dead.

The ground floor of the wine shop became a hospital for the wounded, and the bodies of the dead were taken to an alley near the smaller of the two barricades

Four of the dead people were National Guards, and their uniforms were removed.

'You can wear these.' Enjolras pointed to the National Guard uniforms that had been taken off the dead soldiers.

A terrible heap of dead bodies lay not far away, among them the blood-stained body of a young girl in man's clothes - Eponine.

Javert glanced at the dead body and murmured, 'I think I know that girl

Soon, the ground below the barricade was piled with dead and wounded men as the rebels and soldiers fought hand to hand

Soon, all the rebels were dead, including Enjolras, who was the last to die

'He's dead,' he said.

He's dead

'He's dead!' cried the old man in a terrible voice

He also invented a dead family for Cosette, so that everybody believed she was an orphan

'Look, I have a piece of cloth from the dead man's coat as proof.'

I know that your wife is dead, but take the money and start a new life in America with your daughter

For a moment I think that I am dead and that Catherine is alone, tied to the grey stone in the fog

"He has dead eyes

His cold dead eyes accuse me."

"William Grey? Miss Thornton, William Grey is dead

The man's dark hair is wet from the rain outside, his skin pale and his eyes cold and dead

Then two tall, strangely dressed men walk into the shade of the terrace, one with three dead rabbits in one hand and a long rifle in the other.

But not yet: the Mojave Desert is still all around him with its flat orange sands and dead bushes

dead..

Jesus, is this it? Did he really do something to that girl? More than hit her once? Did he do what they said on the radio? Was she dead?

dead..

But there will be no fighting today: the few people that are here look half dead.

She got up and returned to her tomato plants, taking off the dead and dying leaves from the bottom of each one

The ultranet was completely dead

When the ultranet interface went dead, she sat quietly for a moment

dead..

and that your wife is dead.'

I read again, 'Max, from Rebecca.' She was dead

The hand she placed in mine was cold and heavy, like something dead.

'Mrs de Winter has been dead for over a year.'

'Do you think the dead watch the living?'

She was not dead, like Rebecca

And all the time, the real Mrs de Winter, with her smile and her lovely face is lying cold and dead in the church.'

'But Rebecca is dead,' I told him

The windows were tightly closed and some of the flowers were dead

When I phoned the following day, Rebecca was dead

In six months, she would have been dead.'

But Danny had been dead more than a year.

Gazing at the dead boy's toys and pathetic treasures, Tina realized, not for the first time, that it wasn't healthy for her to maintain this place as if it were a museum

As long as she left his things undisturbed, she could continue to entertain the hope that Danny was not dead, that he was just away somewhere for a while, and that he would shortly pick up his life where he had left off

She had to let the dead rest in peace

Not dead

Except, of course, that the boy who had once slept here had been dead for a year

The blood drains from his head-bang! - And he faints dead away

Later, after Danny was dead, she'd repressed her feelings because she'd known that Michael had been truly suffering from the loss of his child, and she hadn't wanted to add to his misery

And why would a first-rate burglar leave without taking anything? Why break in merely to write on Danny's chalkboard and to wreck the dead boy's things?

Goddamn it, Danny was dead!

I always have this powerful feeling that Danny isn't really dead

You see, I've convinced my conscious mind that my boy is dead, but when I'm asleep it's my subconscious mind that's in charge; and my subconscious just isn't convinced that Danny's gone."

Maybe someone's just dropping a series of hints, trying to wake me up to the fact that Danny isn't dead."

Danny is dead."

The next day she seemed to have a touch of flu, and the third day she was dead

Because the mother hadn't seen the body in the funeral home, she just couldn't bring herself to believe her daughter was really dead

On the brown hills, the huge houses thrust like the bleak monuments of an ancient, dead religion

She thought of the words on the chalkboard and on the computer printout: Not dead, not dead, not dead...

The doctor pronounced him dead, and his grieving parents committed Kevin to the grave

Most of the story dealt with Death's attempts to stop the mother and father on their desperate night journey; they were assaulted by every form of the walking dead, every manner of living corpse and vampire and ghoul and zombie and ghost, but they triumphed

The lead story in this issue was about a boy, approximately Danny's age, mistakenly pronounced dead, then buried alive, and then exhumed.

The boy had been battered, burned, frozen, horribly mutilated in the crash, dead beyond any shadow of a doubt

Danny certainly had been dead when they had buried him.

Too late, he saw the sign at the fourth intersection - NOT A THROUGH STREET - but they were already around the corner and headed down the narrow dead end, with nothing but a row of ten modest stucco houses on each side.

But Danny is dead

If they're waiting, watching - we'll be dead before we can tell a reporter more than a sentence or two

"Wouldn't it? Think of Waco - all those dead children

Vince Foster found dead in a Washington park and officially declared a suicide even though most of the forensic evidence points to murder

Is that our love is not dead yet.

No, our love is not dead-

not dead-

not dead-

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"Listen," she said excitedly, "we thought someone was sending me messages about Danny being alive just to rub my face in the fact that he was actually dead - or to let me know, in a roundabout fashion, that the way he died wasn't anything like what I'd been told

I'm saying Danny isn't dead."

"If you discover he's dead, it'll be like losing him all over again."

"But he's not dead," she insisted

"And if he is dead?" Elliot asked, every bit as insistent as she was.

In which case, both he and you might be dead

"But at least he's not dead," Tina said.

A dead man

Elliot stared into the flat dead gaze of the pasty-faced corpse, and he knew that he was looking at Luciano Bellicosti

He kept one hand on her back as she leaned toward the window, and he felt her go rigid when she glimpsed the dead man

It flapped noisily to the other end of the room and then back again, finally falling like a dead bird onto the floor at Elliot's feet.

If we're lucky, we'll have Danny when we come out, and he probably won't be in any condition to trek through the Sierras in the dead of winter."

And they would be dead.

Zachariah regarded her as he might have done if she had been dead on the floor and then miraculously risen.

One day later all of them were dead..

By the time the latest washing-machine-frenziedcat-dead-beloved story was delivered, no creative energy remained for the job at hand

The legendary producer who brought the project to the studio is dead, probably because he was a beloved friend of the bad-luck writing duo.

Then one night he drank very heavily and ran wildly out of the house, and in the morning we found him dead in a river

The next morning we read in the newspaper that John Openshaw was dead

The worst thing is when the telephone rings in the dead of night

'Was it dead?' he asked.

Do you know, for years I believed she was dead

I wish he was dead

The man was dead - shot through the head.

'He's dead - he's been dead for half an hour, I think.'

'He has been dead just over half an hour, I think

He had been dead much longer than that.'

I can think of at least seven people who might be very happy to have Colonel Protheroe dead.'

He was dead

I could see he was dead without touching him.'

There was something dead about her face

She said, "By this time tomorrow night, you may be dead." So when I heard about the murder, I said to Rose, "It's her who did it!"'

'The first is that Colonel Protheroe was dead already, but I don't think that's likely

Then the line went dead

And I began to think of other people who might want Colonel Protheroe dead.'

When the poor young man was found dead and the letter was read, everyone would think that he had shot Colonel Protheroe and killed himself because he felt so guilty

He said I thought she was dead!

They listened, knocked on the burnt metal with a rock and, getting no answer, they both decided that the men inside were either unconscious or dead.

By eight o'clock a number of boys and unemployed men were already walking to the common to see the 'dead men from Mars'

'He may be lying dead there.'

I had never touched a dead body before, but I forced myself to turn him over and feel for his heart

He certainly was dead

He found himself lying under a group of burnt dead men and horses

They carry a kind of box that shoots fire and strikes you dead.'

There were shouts of fear, the guns suddenly left behind, men on the ground struggling to breathe, and the fast spreading of the dark smoke - a silent black cloud hiding its dead.

I thought of her in Leatherhead, frightened, in danger, thinking of me already as a dead man

Here and there along the road, and in Sunbury itself, were dead bodies of horses as well as men, turned-over carts and luggage, all covered thickly with black dust

Once again, on the Surrey side, there was black dust that had once been smoke, and some dead bodies - a number of them near the approach to the station.

Except in the corner, where a number of birds fought over some dead bodies, there was not a living thing in the pit.

Here I found more black powder and some dead bodies

They had been dead for many days, so I hurried quickly past them

She seemed asleep, but she was dead.

In South Kensington the streets were clear of dead people and of black powder, and near there I first heard the howling

Why was I walking alone in this city of the dead? I thought of old friends that I had forgotten for years

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

I go to London and see the busy crowds in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes to my mind that they are just the ghosts of the past, walking the streets that I have seen silent and empty, spirits in a dead city

And it is strangest of all to hold my wife's hand again, and to think that I have thought of her, and that she has thought of me, among the dead.

On Thursday and Friday you're almost dead

If you sleep any more, you're dead! However, I like your idea of a holiday on the River Thames.'

An angry woman brought me her dead cat and called me a murderer

'Say something! Are you dead or alive? Where is your body?'

After a while, he returned with a dead rat in his mouth

Harris said, 'It's all right to add the dead rat

Jesus! She doesn't wish herself dead or anything as stupidly final as that

My fingers are dead with typing

A lady called Mrs Fairlie was kind to me, but now she and her husband are both dead.'

The dead lady's husband was out of the country, so my mistress arranged for the lady to be buried in her home town in Cumberland in the same grave as her mother.

When she met me she told me - very gently - that my love was dead.

'I've come to tell you that your daughter is dead.' 'How do you know?' she asked indifferently.

The old parish clerk is dead now, but his son lives in the village

They came out carrying the dead body of Sir Percival Glyde.

As soon as Sir F was dead, Sir P claimed the title, Blackwater Park, and the land

He told me that Percival was dead, and that you were investigating Percival's secret when he died

The next day we told Laura that her husband was dead and that her marriage, the greatest error of her life, was over.

By the time you read this, I will be dead

"You idiot! The governor wants you dead or alive!" says Sergeant Gonzales

"The Captain is dead," says Zorro to the Governor.