Sentence examples for dead ground from inspiring English sources

The past is not dead ground, and to traverse it is not a sterile exercise.

The place we had reached was called "dead ground" because it was where the enemy couldn't see you.

You watch the straggling advance over the dead ground, the wide line of men curiously dwarfen in the great space.

That evening we wandered about on the dead ground and asked about friends of ours who had arrived a month or so ago.

Planting rainforest, reanimating dead ground, pulled him out of the terrible hole he was in and he reinvented himself as well as his photography".

First, the Scottish left wing was crowded against a steep slope that prevented maneuvering; second, a slight depression created some "dead ground," or a natural trench, in front of Leslie's position that enabled Cromwell's troops to redeploy under cover.

It's not that The Walking Dead isn't scary or doesn't contain gratuitous amounts of gore but, where other horror projects opt for camp, The Walking Dead grounds itself in reality".

Some commuters wouldn't be caught dead below ground.

"After 9/11, many Southern African-American women came to New York to raise the dead at Ground Zero," he says.

Below her, on the second floor, there's a couple whose romance is utterly dead; the ground floor is occupied by the landlady, an elderly, faltering spinster.

19" (1960), a deep black rectangle bisected by a bright orange stripe placed smack in the middle of a dead white ground.