Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To feel flat, or to love in a flattened way, or to love flat things, is one step, we're taught to think, from deathliness.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2023

Rickman could make even deathliness a turn-on, as he did when he played the title character in Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2016

Not a blade of grass, not a flower, not even the hardiest lichen, springs up to relieve the utter deathliness of the scene.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various

Hope then was blazing in our hearts; but this new deathliness went nigh to quench it altogether.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph