deathlike
Example Sentences
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But the biggest draw might be the deathlike stench when they open.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I think that part of what drove theater attendance this summer was a subconscious attraction to the deathlike repetition of timeless dreamworlds, whether underwater or plastered in pink.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
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
