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
But, I say, Dorothy, don’t you let any old woman coax you into a dead-and-alive hole in the woods.
From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn
And here was this dead-and-alive Percy Lunt, saying she never thought!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
The sole purpose I had in view at first was the resuscitation of the dead-and-alive newspaper of which I had ventured to take charge.
From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Eggleston, Edward
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