deathly

Example Sentences

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“A lot of people are deathly afraid of losing all their money,” Perkins told me, back at his Austin, Texas, compound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

The atmosphere among those who came to mourn the tragedy was deathly quiet.

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

When Charlie Hopkins thinks back to the three years he spent in one of America's most famous prisons, he remembers the "deathly quiet" the most.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

Sure, but whatever one feels about the ethics of “Emilia Pérez,” the bigger problem, for me, is that it quickly begins to take itself deathly seriously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

He became deathly ill and had to beg her forgiveness.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers