Causing or capable of causing death.
Having the physical appearance of death.
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Examples for "deadly "
Examples for "deadly "
1 Some rockets get through, putting innocent civilians, including children, at deadly risk.
2 The Mediterranean Sea is the world's most deadly border area for migrants.
3 It was the second deadly suicide attack on police in two days.
4 Politics without objective, honest measurement of results is a deadly short circuit.
5 Strategies changed as conditions changed, and they had taken a deadly turn.
1 The Russian civil war is dragging its mortal tail through eastern Europe.
2 The years of decay had left him vulnerable and far too mortal .
3 The murderer and the victim in mortal combat over the tin box.
4 That Socrates is mortal , of course, by applying the rule to Socrates.
5 At last he gasped forth in the hoarse whisper of mortal terror:
1 Today and tonight, our soldiers in Afghanistan will be facing lethal threat.
2 Yet good record keeping is still the most lethal saboteur of portfolios.
3 Despite different therapies LPD can still have a rapid and lethal course.
4 Context: Pheochromocytoma crisis is a feared and potentially lethal complication of pheochromocytoma.
5 I can think of no better way to illustrate Chimera's lethal nature.
1 The face, too, with the deathly hue of the grave upon it.
2 Yet the deathly stillness in the scrub oaks around the house continued.
3 Mid-winter gripped the dead world; and the twilight air was deathly chill.
4 Terror was in the innocent eyes and the deathly white, baby face.
5 She went deathly still, whether from shock or desire he couldn't tell.
6 The result was a deathly stillness in the house, except at meal-times.
7 The silence in the room was deathly , the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
8 And then he's gone, leaving the room deathly still in his wake.
9 There was something almost deathly in the look of her little face.
10 Halloween, in keeping with its deathly associations, is not a safe time.
11 It's deathly silent as Mierzwiak and Stan work on completing the job.
12 Then a silence fell, deathly , like the lifeless silence of a grave.
13 The vague light of the rising moon gleamed deathly on his face.
14 The woman had looked so deathly white that the boy was alarmed.
15 There was an instant of almost deathly stillness in that turbulent heart.
16 The prisoner set his teeth, though deathly pale, and did not reply.
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