Sentence examples for are dead a from inspiring English sources

Either Alcock and Brown are approaching Ireland now or they are dead, a casualty of the time.

"I'm her 28th case, and 16 of them are dead," a scared friend says to Ned Weeks (portrayed by Raúl Esparza), emerging from the doctor's examining room in the first weeks of the epidemic.

Geerdink, a freelance based in Turkey since 2006, is the author of De Jongens zijn Dood (The Boys are Dead), a book published last year that examines a 2011 bombing by Turkish military planes that killed 35 Kurdish civilians.

Harper's Magazine described the effects of endless hours of this work: 'Their eyes are dead, a stupor overcomes them, their nerves are unsettled and their lungs diseased in almost every case.' " Tragically, the garment industry did turn out to be the most fatal in practice.

Those 15 grisly corpses -- devout Christians mistakenly trampled by 500,000 of their frenzied brethren at a religious crusade in Nigeria where the feverish, unkempt Reinhard Bonnke, a world-renowned German faith healer, supposedly performed miracles -- really are dead ("A Question of Miracles," tonight at 10).

Although some reports suggest two workers are dead, a Coast Guard spokesman addressing the oil rig fire told WWLTV that there were no confirmed deaths.

He was dead a week later.

Coltrane was dead a few months afterwards.

She is dead, a suicide.

"Teddy Roosevelt has been dead a long time.

He has been dead a while.