How to Use dead in a Sentence

dead

1 of 3 adjective

• He lay dead on the floor.
• The poster said that the robbers were wanted dead or alive.
• The lost mountain climbers were believed dead.
• I'm dead if I come in late for work again.
• He was found dead in his apartment yesterday.
• If I ever get my hands on you, you're dead!
• Her husband is dead. He died last year.
• Our legs were completely dead after hiking all day.
• The driver of one of the trailers was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the male victims was found dead at the scene, police said.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• Don’t stop talking on the phone Phone calls aren’t dead!
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• By 2019, the tiny boy with big brown eyes and bouncing curls was dead.
  — Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The only chicken that was not dead was the one with the scissor beak.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Grayson was found dead at a New Orleans truck stop on April 30.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
• All three victims were pronounced dead on the scene at 10:30 p.m.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2023
• One person has been confirmed dead in the fire, the agency said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2023
• There, the hamster was found dead and police believe the pair had stomped on it.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Medics responded to the location and pronounced the man dead on the scene.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
• The girl was pronounced dead, while the boy was stable, police said.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• The eight-parter is set in the titular town after a local man is found dead on a beach.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• Police found the victim dead on the front balcony of a home on Flemming Avenue, the chief said.
  — Jessica Schmidt, The Enquirer, 21 June 2023
• She was struck in the head, and paramedics rushed her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 12 July 2023
• Reports of sick and dead birds are lower this fall compared to fall 2022, Leach said.
  — Cristina Larue, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
• However, the man was later pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• The boys were pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
• Phoenix was pronounced dead less than an hour later, at 1:51 a.m.
  — Martha Frankel, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
• The child’s parents rushed him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• The fires left at least 115 people dead and thousands homeless.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
• About 130 hostages remain unaccounted for, with some known to be dead.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
• The driver, who was pronounced dead at the scene, suffered massive injuries that made her identification difficult.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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dead

2 of 3 noun

• By the end of the war, there were over two million dead.
• He began his journey in the dead of winter.
• In the span of a week, the count of the dead nearly tripled in Michigan.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
• The dead have been found in their cars, homes, and in snow banks.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
• Here, the names of the dead can be spoken and the agony of loss can be shown.
  — Matt Sedensky, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• The dead have been found in their cars, homes and in snowbanks.
  — Carolyn Thompson and Jake Beiberg, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
• This isn’t your 25 cent brick ramen boiled in the dead of night.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 4 Mar. 2022
• Officers found the 5-month-old and the two-and-a-half-year-old dead in the tub, police said.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2022
• The dead include three men and three women, Lester said.
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2022
• My longest walk and talk was three hours long—in the dead of winter.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Sep. 2022
• Its chirps are piercing, if perhaps not loud enough to wake the dead.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• For the families of Uvalde, Tex., the dead are buried, but there is little peace for the living.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 16 July 2022
• The New York Times first reported on the images showing the dead.
  — Oleksandr Stashevskyi, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• The man was put in contact with the article's author, who was able to point him to the field where the dead were buried.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2022
• The church bishop, Abdul Masih Bakhit, was also among the dead.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
• Vicaria is going to put an end to all this death… by bringing the dead back to life.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• Her children took her body in the dead of night to bury it properly.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• A New Year’s Eve shooting in Tuscaloosa left a 16-year-old dead in one of two overnight homicides.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 1 Jan. 2023
• An entire section of the cemetery is given over to Ulan-Ude’s dead in the war.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• In Lewistown, the county seat, finding people who knew some of the dead is easy.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
• One left an 18-year-old dead near the center in September.
  — Scott Calvert, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
• Many of the film’s scenes take place in the dead of night, but as Peele describes it, the majority of them weren’t filmed at night.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
• The dead include 19 children, the human rights office said.
  — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2022
• Local authorities hurried to bury the dead from the past two weeks of fighting in a mass grave in the city.
  — Vgeniy Maloletka, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• In the dead of a moonless night, lost in a bayou, with slave trackers in hot pursuit, all hope seems lost.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
• Practice military parades have been held on the streets of London in the dead of night.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
• In the dead of winter, this is much easier than yanking a pull cord.
  — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
• Those with the ability to resurrect the dead often are.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
• Burials also reveal the range of ways in which humans lay their dead to rest.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Al-Shifa was forced to bury its dead in a mass grave inside the complex on Tuesday, with around 180 bodies buried there, El Mokhallalati said.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023

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dead

3 of 3 adverb

• We were dead tired by the end of the day.
• They were both dead drunk and passed out on the floor.
• She finished the race dead last.
• She's dead certain that she can finish the job.
• He's not joking. In fact, he's dead serious.
• Do dead hangs and pullups 3 times a week to strengthen your game.
  — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• West Valley City was ranked dead last among the 200 cities.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
• The Cavaliers rank dead last in the league in terms of tempo.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Police searched the home and found Wright and Reed dead inside.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• And of course, just like all of their other grandiose claims, this one is dead wrong.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Most of the dead died from Russian bombs, missiles, and their wreckage.
  — ELLE, 24 May 2022
• That the battery will be dead simple to replace when the time comes is a small comfort.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 July 2022
• Which, for a team that ranks dead last at No. 133 in many outlets’ FBS rankings, isn’t all that bad.
  — Ainslie Lee | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• On the other side, MSU returns nine starters from a defense that ranked in the top 15 in the nation against the rush but was dead last against the pass.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2022
• The reality star, who trained for months for the 2013 run, started the race dead last – on purpose.
  — Nancy Mattia, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2022
• Meghan Markle wouldn't be caught dead wearing florals for spring.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2023
• The 9-year-old boy was pronounced dead shortly after 2:30 a.m.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2023
• That’s far below the toll during last winter’s killer surge but still adds up to more than 3,000 dead each week.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• Deputies are asking for tips about the killing of a man found dead earlier this month in the Columbia Slough.
  — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2022
• New Orleans is ranked dead last in both turnover margin (-12) and giveaways (19).
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
• And preferences for working full-time in person came in dead last at 9%.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2022
• The film is about two teenagers dead set on doing revenge on each other’s nemesis.
  — Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
• Steve winds up dead in the pool in the first season’s finale, putting a violent bow on his one-season arc.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 9 June 2023
• Arizona’s offense is one of the worst in baseball, ranking dead last in wOBA.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022
• Anyone who claimed Cage didn’t care about his career during this era was dead wrong.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
• Toronto entered the night dead last in 3-point percentage at 32.1.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
• Chris Evans plays a man dead-set on getting to the front of the train to figure out what's happening to the poor kids getting kidnapped from the caboose.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
• Tiger sharks are washing up dead on the beaches of Western Australia with no sign of attack.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• His players are dead serious, unflappable and willing to get down and dirty.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The indifference of Russian commanders to the lives of their troops was well known: Images of Russian injured and dead abandoned on roadsides and in fields were another morale-boosting meme for Ukrainians.
  — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024