How to Use deadly in a Sentence

deadly

1 of 2 adjective
  • They launched a deadly attack.
  • The two gang leaders are deadly enemies.
  • A deadly silence followed his question.
  • Officers are allowed to use deadly force if necessary.
  • He spoke with deadly seriousness.
  • She shoots with deadly accuracy.
  • The deaths come amid one of the deadliest years in the city on record.
    Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
  • All the while, the town faces a new deadly drug called Great White.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The crash of the Cessna 550 was the second deadly plane crash in the area in four days.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • Hines is one of 39 people known to survive the deadly leap.
    Kara Nelson, CNN, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The argument turned deadly when one of the men stabbed Sibley in the torso.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Halls signed a plea agreement to settle the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The long reign of the Byzantines, Tolkien’s letters, Fitzgerald’s swan song, deadly gardens and more.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Davis was charged with one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon, with a gang enhancement.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • None of them wanted to shoot something that came from the mouth of a deadly lizard into patients.
    Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Although the man was not harmed, Garcia still faced assault with a deadly weapon charges.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • This week, the deadliest attack on civilians in Lviv since the war began, at least 10 killed.
    ABC News, 9 July 2023
  • Avery had rolled out his deadly plans with all the guile and strategic know-how that his navy training had taught him.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in the country’s history have occurred in the past 16 years.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Israel-Hamas war is the deadliest for journalists on record.
    Guy Davies, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Fentanyl, though, is such a powerful drug that even a small amount can be deadly.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This was at least the second, if not the third, deadly shark attack that occurred in Mexico in one month.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But for some groups, including the elderly and young children, the virus can be deadly.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The New York Times added that more than 1,100 people have already been charged in connection with the deadly attack.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The blaze is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Forrest Galante has a theory that deadly sea snakes might have something to do with it.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • The humor is deadpan and the fights feel deadly in a way that channels a very 21st century, post-John Wick style of snap, crackle and pow.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly.
    USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • This timing makes these storms very dangerous, as research shows nighttime tornadoes are more than twice as deadly as daytime ones.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The survivor of the deadly crash, 23-year-old Scottsdale resident Valerie Stutterheim, suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of the incident.
    Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
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deadly

2 of 2 adverb
  • I'm deadly serious about making an offer on the house.
  • That, of course, led to the blind spot that helped make the Hamas attacks so deadly.
    Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The grudge match came with a storied rap beef from 2005 that turned deadly.
    Bry'onna Mention, Essence, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The fires, which turned deadly over the weekend, follow record heat waves in the region.
    Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 14 July 2021
  • The dispute then turned deadly when Mr. Guzman choked Ms. Grayson to death.
    Caroline Silva, ajc, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The combination of the flames, smoke and the crowd pressing to try to flee quickly turned deadly.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Bryan was filming with his cellphone when the chase turned deadly.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Tarantula hawks are said to have among the most painful stings on the planet, deadly when to spiders.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
  • There have been at least two other shootings this year in the 100 block of Third Avenue North, one of them deadly.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 Nov. 2021
  • While the tone of the film is light-hearted, the issues tackled are deadly serious.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • To keep your eyes fixed on him throughout a match is both spellbinding and deadly dull.
    Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Oscar show felt so deadly dull is that nearly all the movie clips were excised from the broadcast.
    New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The weapon was small enough to be concealed in clothing and — for the first time in history — deadly enough to kill half a dozen people at a time.
    Sebastian Junger, National Review, 13 July 2023
  • The flooding is unusual for the region — one of the last times floods this deadly hit North Africa was in 1927 in Algeria.
    Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • As often happens, the exclusive claims to parts of the holy city often turn deadly.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • And reports on those who died in Lee County showed just how quickly Ian could turn deadly.
    John Kennedy, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Flights can turn deadly even in the hands of experienced pilots.
    ProPublica, 18 June 2021
  • This is deadly serious, this is the real world matters here.
    Washington Post, 24 June 2021
  • Paramedics deferring to law enforcement may have been what made the 2017 death of William Marshall turn deadly.
    Beth Schwartzapfel and Cary Aspinwall, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
  • This is deadly serious and there has to be consequences.
    Jennifer Hauser, Tara John and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The victims of the King Soopers shooting in Boulder, Colo., had no reason to believe a quick shopping trip would turn deadly.
    Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In addition to the immaculate iron play, Morikawa is deadly accurate off the tee, which pops at East Lake as a key stat.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In that terrifying moment, for the dozens of onlookers a late-summer visit to one of the coast’s most scenic spots turned deadly.
    Quinton Smith, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Throckmorton is deadly accurate both in the pocket and on off-platform throws when things break down.
    oregonlive, 20 July 2021
  • Friends of Disney’s told his mom the name of the soldier suspected of selling the deadly fake Percocet to Diamond.
    Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Ten months later, two teen-agers in Colorado launched an attack so deadly that it became known by a single word: Columbine.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Lee will continue to churn up rough seas and cause potentially deadly rip currents along the U.S. East Coast through the weekend.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • While that can be mild, severe heat exhaustion — known as heatstroke — can turn deadly.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
  • However, the elephants' love for mahua can sometimes turn deadly.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Measles is a highly contagious disease that can lead to complications and turn deadly, according to the CDC.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024

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