deathlike

Example Sentences

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If you know anything about Burton’s movies, you know that they tend to feature characters who embody all the qualities of a sickly Victorian-era child: waifish, sunken doe-eye and gaunt faces with a deathlike pallor.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

Inside the field hospital at Azovstal, the wounded soldiers looked pale and deathlike.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

Failing to turn friendship with an aristocratic young woman into something more, a despondent Guy wills himself into a deathlike sleep, eventually awakening in a seemingly idyllic socialist future.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

In the US, one writer observed: “The very face of nature seemed to be shrouded in a deathlike gloom.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2021

I knew only that I would grow heavy with the burden, and one day deathlike pains would grip me until the creature sprang from my loins and cried to be cared for.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein