Sentence examples for dead for a while from inspiring English sources

FRANCISCO FRANCO, the dictator of Spain for 36 years, has been dead for a while.

Twitter was certainly a resource this morning — the phones went dead for a while in Japan, but the Internet didn't.

I was fine with buying someone who'd been dead for a while; I just didn't want to have to wrap him.

"In most cases, the people I've done have been dead for a while and they have about as much personality as a bit of clingfilmed chicken on the cold counter at Sainsburys', so generally I can detach myself," says Reynolds.

"In my mind, XMRV has been dead for a while," says Miller.

He was probably dead for a while".

Benn Steil, of the Council on Foreign Relations, suggests that a popular hedge-fund strategy called statistical arbitrage "looks like it's going to be dead for quite a while".

He explains that the issue has actually been dead for quite a while but that "Congress had put a hat and sunglasses on it and propped it up hoping no one would notice," à la "Weekend at Bernie's".

I had an indie label, Dead Elvis, for a while.

Next to her sits Cicely Tyson, who talks about her dead husband for a while, then goes outdoors to urge the family's worthless younger generation to reclaim its African-American dignity.

One reason is a "lingering sense that a dead body for a while will continue to suffer in some way," Dr. Lock said, adding that beliefs about the other world and treating the dead properly "are much more widespread than many of us realize," she said.