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
She was always thrown in the dreariest places with the dreariest dead-and-alive people, flat and insipid and tiresome.
From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy
All the morning Liza worked in a dead-and-alive sort of fashion, her head like a piece of lead with electric shocks going through it when she moved, and her tongue and mouth hot and dry.
From Liza of Lambeth by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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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