15 example sentences using dead.
Dead used in a sentence
Dead in a sentence as a noun
"I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.
And that a "dead heat" doesn't mean it's a coin ****.
I think I know what the problem is; we're detecting HN as a dead page.
I know that I'm living on borrowed time right now and I could be dead at any moment.
You try telling a 6 year old that her daddy has cancer and will be dead before she turns 8.
Dead in a sentence as an adjective
' Programming isn't a dead end job any more than welding is a dead end job or painting.
I respond really negatively to the notion of 'dead end.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
The neurologist told her that nine times out of ten, the clot travels a different path, and the victim is left dead or braindead.
Most of the deadweight is outside Engineering teams because its hard to ******** when you have to deliver a product.
Dead in a sentence as an adverb
Any company that has been around for as long as Microsoft, has a huge amount of dead weight in its mid-level management.
Google Reader kept the content of RSS feeds cached forever, meaning it was the last surviving record of a huge number of dead and deleted blogs.
This was not a "dead-end job", he was the first hire at a newly formed company, there was definitely an opportunity for him to grow his career in a highly lucrative field.
And _all_ of that interest was shot dead due to attempts to own identity by enforcing the use of real names[1].There are very real reasons why "average" people need alternate identities online.
Still, there are peripheral functions like business development, marketing, intellectual property, privacy, policy, etc., where you can always find a few deadbeats that talk slick, but don't seem to have much to show for their time except hiring more people and making a few high impact appearances at meetings.
Dead definitions
people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
See also: deadened
lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
See also: idle
not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
See also: stagnant
not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"
See also: utter
drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
See also: drained
devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
See also: absolutely perfectly utterly