Sentence examples for about as dead from inspiring English sources

It's about as dead as can be.

Interestingly, by the late '70s, Kurosawa's career was about as dead as the real Lord Shingen.

The Kin One and Kin Two are about as dead as can be.

Unforgotten: So far, just one, although that person is just about as dead as you can get.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Until this year, this Rust Belt city and surrounding Mahoning County had been about as dead, seismically, as a place can be, without even a hint of an earthquake since Scots-Irish settlers arrived in the 18th century.

They were whole and seemingly unscathed and wandering about as the future dead while others were vapor or grease or but rags of flesh and pulverized bone".

Some believe that this positioning brings about death, as dead people are carried away from their deathbed feet first.

After a gig where I'd died on my arse, somebody said to me: "You are about as funny as a dead baby's doll".

One of the two girls, Lizzy Seeberg, whom Salon's Irin Carmon wrote about as "Notre Dame's Real Dead Woman," was a student at neighboring St. Mary's College.

The nation is evenly divided, and the pollsters tell us that incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are in a statistical tie that's about as close to a dead heat as you can get.

The portion of Article I, Section 8, cited above has become a dead letter, about as operative as blue laws still on the books in some American cities and towns that purport to regulate Sabbath day activities.