Sentence examples for and dead in a from inspiring English sources

"We were loss-making and dead in a ditch," he said.

It's beyond sad to watch your robust green forest turn red and dead in a matter of a few years.

At a nearby field hospital, Abdullah Abu Aouf kept the tally of injured and dead in a brown leather book, recording one of the conflict's bloodiest days in blue ink — 17 former rebels dead, more than 250 wounded.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in a village in northern Italy for the funeral of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge PhD student found tortured and dead in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo last week.

The nurse looking after Penny's father "lacks legal authorisation to tell him what she wants to hear – that he would like to be knocked out cold, and dead in a week".

The reader might think of Beckett's "The Unnamable," and the narrator's cry at being "a wordless thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks... like a caged beast born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead".

When officers arrived at the rural farmhouse, they found a husband and wife dead in a murder-suicide, and the child hiding in a closet.

In 2006, three young brothers from Canada, ages 17, 13 and 12, were abducted along with their driver and found dead in a ditch a month later.

Ms. Devi was taken into custody in July 2004 and found dead in a paddy field the next morning.

In the movie's most gruesome moment, his only hope for survival is to bury himself in mud and play dead in a ditch festooned with rotting corpses.

I'm not going to show the things where people are being stabbed in a magician's cabinet and drop dead in a very long, slow take".