cut dead

How to use cut dead in a sentence

• Why should she have been there talking to the very man whom she had a week ago cut dead in the village?

  The Imaginary Marriage | Henry St. John Cooper

• Rarely will a beaver cut dead wood, and only in emergencies will he cut a pine or a spruce.

  Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. Mills

• It cut dead at the heart of his ambition; it would be a shock as great as the discovery of Countess Ellenburg's ambitions.

  Sophy of Kravonia | Anthony Hope

• Anyone who's capable of bringing this disgrace upon us deserves to be sent to Coventry, and cut dead!

  The New Girl at St. Chad's | Angela Brazil

• When a man's been cut dead during the whole term, he can't be looked on as one of the house very well.

  The White Feather | P. G. Wodehouse