dead-stick landing

The Lion Air captain had left his rookie copilot to make the landing until he realized he was in trouble.

A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.

When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.

To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.