deathly
IPA: dˈɛθɫi
adjective
- Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.
- Deadly, fatal, causing death.
- Extreme.
adverb
- In a way that resembles death.
- Extremely, dreadfully.
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Examples of "deathly" in Sentences
- Lloyd said he started kayaking partly to beat a "deathly" fear of the water.
- By half past 10, when the president finally shuffled on to the stage, a deathly hush swept the square.
- There are one hundred fifty-one children in some kind of deathly stupor, all stacked up in coffins within the ship.
- The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is a magnet drawing lost sheep home and keeping would-be strays from the deathly snows outside.
- So it ` s a defense mechanism, what he ` s doing, and he ` s telling the press that the children are deathly terrorized, and that word "deathly" says a lot.
- "So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications.
- The following morning, he recalls the deathly silence that consumed New York City, "as if saying something would have been disrespectful to the 2,500 people or so who died."
- Any sense of trepidation surrounding Haneke’s vision of a post-apocalyptic existence is heightened by his movie’s title sequence, which unfolds in deathly silence, white words on a black screen, and lasts for what seems like an eternity.
- And although I'm deathly afraid of what will happen to our Habitat Club when you're gone, and I'm also frustrated that my sister won't have to suffer through all the beautiful misery that I went through of last year, I feel, most of all, pity for the incoming freshmen, because they really will have no idea what they missed out on.
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