deadfall

Example Sentences

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Then, a video demonstrating an ancient deadfall trap received over a million views.

From New York Times

Very much to the film’s credit, it feels less like the calculated spectacle of “Army of the Dead” than the slow-motion deadfall of “The Road.”

From Los Angeles Times

And they are drawn to the same hidden place in woods near their homes: a large flat rock under a group of fallen trees called the “deadfall.”

From Washington Post

Her other books, many featuring the sex crimes prosecutor Alex Cooper, include Deadfall, Killer Look and Devil’s Bridge.

From The Guardian

Last night, someone apparently took a VHS copy of director Mary Lambert’s 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, carried it in a green Hefty bag over the deadfall, quick and sure, proceeded through Little God Swamp, climbed the forty-five stone steps to the old burial ground, and planted it in the thin, sour soil under a cairn, because today the movie has come back like the cat in the nursery rhyme.

From Slate