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
A grey-haired woman with a very dead-and-alive face presented herself.
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
"What a dead-and-alive place to live in!" exclaimed Maud.
From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke
As the fly rumbled over the unkept streets toward the station, past the few tame shops and the dead-and-alive hotel, her color came and went in rapid fluctuations.
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
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