Sentence examples for a sort of dead from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a sort of dead" is not standard in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in informal contexts to describe something that feels lifeless or lacking vitality.
Example: "After the long winter, the garden looked a sort of dead, with no flowers blooming."
Alternatives: "somewhat lifeless" or "kind of dead".

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Michael Dean (born 1977) has created what looks at first like a sort of dead man's gulch.

It wasn't dawn, it was midday, but it appeared like dawn, with faint streaks of light shedding from the edges of the green shades and the whole room is a sort of dead half-darkness with a close smell of powder and perfume — and Lysol.

Have a sort of "dead" expression on your face, or a look of discomfort.

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Hilditch makes These Final Hours grim and anarchic, a sort of Walking Dead crossed with The Book of Eli and On the Beach.

I heard myself walk past the skaters into a sort of aural dead zone.

You might be wondering whether or not a sort-of-novelty-record by a long dead porn star is worthy of such serious consideration, and you'd be forgiven for that.

She saw all sorts of dead stuffed animals and even some dead ones in a freezer, pre-stuffing.

But all sorts of "dead" languages enjoy important existences today, albeit in quieter, more subtle ways.

And Billina, the intelligent hen of the same novel, illustrates the importance of cultural relativism: when Dorothy expresses disgust at the hen's diet of live bugs, Billina reminds her, "Live things are much fresher and more wholesome than dead ones, and you humans eat all sorts of dead creatures".

It's a very sort of dead-pan, "Well, let's try it again".

It's a very sort of dead-pan, "Well, let's try it again". I definitely saw that with all my friends' fathers who all worked for the lab.

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