Example Sentences

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“It’s purely coincidental that we have deceased artists in this collection,” Mr. Ishii said.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022

There is none like him, none—nor will be when our summers have deceased.

From The Woman in Black by Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)

There is none like him, none, nor will be when our summers have deceased.

From Trent's Last Case by Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)

Now, Geneviève Goussé must have deceased almost immediately after her confinement, supposing her to have died before her husband's decease, which occurred on the 1st of the following May.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor