deathly
Example Sentences
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Many were dumbfounded to discover that food they’d enjoyed all their lives suddenly made them deathly ill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
“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
He could have been totally fine, or he could have gotten deathly ill.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2025
In other words, I was a teenager, deathly fearful of disappointing her but too prideful to act like it mattered.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
