Sentence examples for lifeless like from inspiring English sources

Their orders are that she must stay thin, ageless, lifeless, like a mannequin.

People were covered in blood and, although they were crying, their eyes were lifeless like zombies.

Without them and the fringe of lash, my hazel eyes looked almost lifeless, like dark raisins.

The occupied city was lifeless, like "a body without a soul", says Diagayeté.

Meanwhile, none of the qualities one would normally associate with conventional portraiture — beauty, insight or charm — is present, and most of the figures are stiff and lifeless, like animals in car headlights.

She wrote: "Everything suddenly looked unnatural, therefore unpleasant; even the trees seemed to become flat and lifeless, like wood worked in tapestry.

During the cocaine days, those who ventured onto the city's lifeless, grid-like streets after hours encountered a Wild West showdown of trigger-happy capos.

He tried to prepare what he called "the little Negress" who stood in front of him for the sting of inoculation, but she seemed to be in a trance, nearly lifeless, doll-like.

The list included Ernest Haeckel, whose widely read books popularized Darwin's theory and advocated that the possibility that living organisms were the evolutionary outcome of the gradual transformation of lifeless gel-like matter into protoplasm, endowed with the ability to fix atmospheric CO2, in the early atmosphere, which was a widespread notion even during Darwin's lifetime.

Farther up the river, grease-coated factories croaked along its lifeless banks, like a cemetery for the Industrial Age.

One dad starts talking about vasectomies while another, overcome with exhaustion, allows bored toddlers to swarm over his lifeless body, like ants on an abandoned pasty.