dead-and-alive
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But in theory, a quantum computer — one built using the crazy dead-and-alive particles we've been talking about — could have bits that were zeroes and ones at the same time.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2016
Maybe that's why I can't stop thinking about the other Will Grayson's huge eyes in Frenchy's: because he had just rendered the dead-and-alive cat dead.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
The monstrousness of that dead-and-alive mechanism overwhelmed his thoughts again.
From The Passing of Ku Sui by Gilmore, Anthony
You know very well if it were not for him the livery man would give us a pair of dead-and-alive old things.
From The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Hill, Grace Brooks
It is the only thing that moves us out of our cowardly lethargy of dead-and-alive egotism.
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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