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 Warner, Susan
The white men were thinking of the hard luck that gave to them such a dreary dead-and-alive lot in life.
From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.
“It strikes me as odd,” said I at last, somewhat ironically, “that so vital a person as yourself should find scope for your energies in this dead-and-alive place.”
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
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