Sentence examples for a deathlike sleep from inspiring English sources

In the opening chapter of "Memoranda" the tyrant takes revenge by bringing a deathlike sleep to Cley's fellow refugees, only to fall victim to his own coma-inducing drug.

The play's oddities don't begin or end with the scene, especially hated by Shaw, in which Princess Imogen wakes up from a deathlike sleep to find she is embracing a headless corpse dressed in her estranged husband Posthumus's clothes.

A woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all around.

The dwarfs return to their cottage and find Snow White seemingly dead, being kept in a deathlike slumber by the potion.

"He's still holding onto the gift, but he stretches himself out into a deathlike pose, completely motionless, with his legs lagging behind," Dr. Bilde said.

These novellas both have displaced protagonists who cannot decide whether to seek a deathlike stillness or to embrace life's mess.

He wouldn't be the one dying, but he might as well have been, because the relief that would follow the killing had a deathlike depth and finality in prospect.

If cornered, an opossum may resort to its legendary talent for playing possum, an autonomic response, like fainting, in which the animal falls to its side with its mouth adrool, excretes droppings and a foul odor, and remains in a deathlike state of curled catatonia for minutes to hours, until finally it revives beginning with a twitch of the ears.

We long for a deathlike silence to engulf the planet.

In despair, Juliet seeks the Friar's help, and he gives her a potion to put her in a deathlike state.

Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a potion that will put her into a deathlike coma for "two and forty hours".