Sentence examples for dead night from inspiring English sources

Then baseball and the networks concluded that Saturday was a dead night for ratings.

It was a dead night inside Club 151, with a few couples dancing desultorily under desperately flashing lights.

On a side trip to see a meteorite crater, their watches stop, the car's battery goes dead, night falls and a seemingly benevolent backwoodsman comes to their assistance.

Even in what had for centuries been called "the dead night", roughly between 2am and 4am, the centres of major metropolitan cities – places like Piccadilly Circus and Times Square – pulsed with people.

The rhetorical grandeur of Britten's score at this point, compared to the rest of the cycle, has clear practical roots in the scoring - chamber orchestra, rather than the strings, plus soloist of the earlier movements - but it is used to convey something rather clotted; the overwhelming sense is of struggle, and at one point the vocal line almost breaks down ("when in dead night").

He is the author of "To Speak for the Dead," "Night Vision," and eight other novels in the "Jake Lassiter" series.

She was found dead an hour later.

She was pronounced dead that evening.

It feels like a dead afternoon.

Mr. Lloyd was declared dead tonight.

Both men were pronounced dead last night at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.