Sentence examples for as if dead from inspiring English sources

Instead, it strikes Aminta, who collapses, as if dead.

The keeper crumbles to the ground as if dead.

Dogs fight, human bodies lie as if dead, tortured faces emerge from the dark.

When she came in he lay as if dead, holding his breath.

When she wakes she looks at the Ixtapa beach and sees people lying body to body as if dead.

In divorces, for instance, one person often "gets custody of the friends," and the other is excommunicated, treated as if dead, or actively reconstituted as an enemy.

At times it feels as if there's as much dead wood on the ground as there is canopy overhead.

It's now euphemistically called the "mail recovery center," as if the dead are not to be spoken of.

Mourning is treated as a private matter, as if these dead belonged only to their comrades and kin, and not to us all.

And now, sole register that these things were, Two solitary greetings have I heard, "Good morrow, Citizen!" a hollow word, As if a dead man spake it!

"We opened the door and there was a stench," Ms. Kelly said, as if a dead body or bodies were in the house.