Sentence examples for lifeless like a from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

"Totally alone in a small, barren, cement enclosure with absolutely NO comfort or stimulation provided, she just stood there almost lifeless  ―  like a figurine," she wrote.

You will also sound mechanical and lifeless, almost like a parrot's words.

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.

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.

The most dramatic part of my visit occurred in the pediatric ward where babies and children infected with malaria lay lifeless like rag dolls on cots.

"[Writing] helps you think better". Students displayed their writing chops in a series of game show sketches, where they challenged teachers to look for idioms and rewrite flat and lifeless sentences like, "the bug moved". "The slimy, colorful, hairy bug crawled to avoid getting eaten by the silk worm," second-grade teacher Linda Winfield said to approving applause and cheers from the crowd.