deathlike
Example Sentences
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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
“There’s something earthy and deathlike about the cello, isn’t there?”
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018
A woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all around.
From The Guardian • May 9, 2016
Many creatures sensed the approach of the slithering evil, or scented its dry, musty, deathlike odor.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
