lifelessly
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Is he the man beneath the word “Harold,” holding the arrow that pierced his eye, or the axeman who flops lifelessly backward after a sword stroke?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Teammates remembered him sitting up and joking 15 minutes after he collapsed lifelessly to the court.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
She was still wearing her maroon traditional garb, her arms falling lifelessly from the white sheet that barely covered her.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
In his review, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the new movie as "overwhelmingly mediocre and pointless, contrived and lifelessly convoluted to the point of gibberish".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2022
They stepped past the silent, still rows of lifelessly reverent Model 82958s.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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