Sentence examples for dead stick from inspiring English sources
verb
To fly, especially to land, an aircraft without power.
Ding dong merrily, then, as Karen enjoys a clandestine shave and Ben tries to cheer up a widower by telling him about his dead stick insect.
I don't feel up to discussing it with you today, and indeed to answer you properly would take an article longer than the first and out of my means, but seriously, Dear Jean, entre nous, you are belaboring new if vastly imperfect ideas with a dead stick.
Never one to go down without a fight, Klaus of course heads to New Orleans, as you can see in The CW preview above, set to Fall Out Boy's "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)." "Welcome to the dark side of New Orleans, where the living are easily lost and the dead stick around to play," a mysterious man tells Klaus in the promo.
But to the casual observer, this tree is an ugly thing, full of dead sticks.
They grow on damp, dead sticks and we've got plenty of those around here.
"I've got to stay dead, stuck in an urn on my ma's mantelpiece," he mused to Charlie.
Their fright makeup and teased hair, as well as the dialogue, quickly inform us that they are dead, stuck in a stultifying afterlife.
Sheep are seven days a week, 24 hours a day: there is always one sick, dead, stuck in a fence or out on the road.
"We're dead stuck," he says.
Natural nests are found in dead sticks and woody vines suspended from branch tangles throughout the BCI forest (see Wcislo et al. 2004 for details).
