Sentence examples for lifeless before from inspiring English sources

Though the poems seem raw and plainspoken, and positively vibrate with feeling, they are, of course, cannily wrought, and demonstrate the thing that poetry, perhaps above all other art forms, does so well: giving form and dimension to disorderly thought, causing words — random, messy, and lifeless before the poet intervenes — to spring up and deliver meaning.

A hand that would cut the throat of an infant without quivering would be struck lifeless before the blade touched one leaf.

Bodies lie lifeless before the investigator like crushed roaches or deer struck by cars.

He had seen that lifeless flesh once before, in a stroke victim".

He told the Associated Press he had passed along three lifeless bodies before receiving the wounded boy.

Even then I remember them as a bright euphoria slipping sharply away from the first weekend towards a last, inevitably grey and lifeless afternoon before school started again.

It's when you see the death and mutilation of young men your age that you realize that the lifeless "enemy" before you is you.

The episode is best known now for the epiphany that Steno had regarding "tongue stones" — that is, fossilized teeth, which, he realized, looking at the lifeless jaws before him, must once have belonged to living animals — but he also noted a series of small raised structures that ran lengthwise along the shark's body.

The episode is best known now for the epiphany that Steno had regarding "tongue stones"—that is, fossilized teeth, which, he realized, looking at the lifeless jaws before him, must once have belonged to living animals but he also noted a series of small raised structures that ran lengthwise along the shark's body.

But these mechanical attempts with lifeless objects pale before more recent achievements, no less in modern medicine, which breathe life into dying human bodies with grafts, transfusions, and transplants, extending their tenure and the resilience of the species.

There was a lifeless feeling at Shea before the game even started.