Sentence examples for a dead business from inspiring English sources

"It's a dead business," said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s.

The prize is a potential $1 billion million market as carriers realise that traditional free voicemail is a dead business when people will pay to have their voicemails to be converted into text.

"This is a dead business," said León Altamirano, one of the first locally-based lawyers who developed an expertise in international surrogacy, and then set up his own agency.

It's a dead simple business, that simply requires the proper infrastructure to deliver speedy results every time.

Teddy had been the best friend of Neil, Aaron's dead business partner, and he begins stalking Aaron by telephone and computer.

Contrast the YBAs, the Young British Artists of the nineties, who had as much noise around them – perhaps not as much shagging, certainly as much of a feeling of a gilded clique, but rather an empty set of founding principles: that meaning was dead, craft was dead, purity was dead, business was inseparable from art and money was indivisible from worth.

So AOL decided to get out of the Internet service-provider game, a dead-end business for a company that doesn't actually own the wires running to your home.

No, it's a dead-serious business venture, Parks says: "Good fortune sneaks up on us when we least expect it".

That doesn't mean they are "dead" businesses.

Just a few years ago, the Uptown Oakland neighborhood was mostly a dead zone after business hours: an intimidating landscape of gaping doorways, barren sidewalks and abandoned storefronts.

In that story, harsh, greedy Ebenezer Scrooge gets a visit on Christmas Eve from the ghost of his long-dead business partner, Jacob Marley.