Sentence examples for dead persons from inspiring English sources

From their open mouths and closed eyes, it is assumed that they are meant to represent dead persons.

Many ancient Mesopotamian divinatory texts reveal a belief that disease and other misfortunes could be caused by dead persons deprived of proper burial.

The report said 349 people, including a soldier, were killed in the violence: "Of the said 349 dead persons, 347 (excluding the soldier) were buried in a mass grave".

According to her party, in the constituency that Aung San Suu Kyi is contesting – Kawhmu, close to Rangoon – the names of hundreds of dead persons are said to be on the electoral roll while those of more than 1,300 eligible voters are missing.

Two categories of dead persons went up to the heavens as companions of the sun: the Quauhteca ("Eagle People"), who comprised the warriors who died on the battlefield or on the sacrificial stone, and the merchants who were killed while traveling in faraway places; and the women who died while giving birth to their first child and thus became Cihuateteo, "Divine Women".

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated data from 255 brain dead persons in our hospital from 2005 to 2015.

And perhaps a dead person, too.

But a dead person cannot move.

"She looked like a dead person.

You can't sue a dead person".

A dead person's name is never spoken.