Sentence examples for lifeless things from inspiring English sources

Museum houses can be dry and lifeless things.

"We don't worship those mannequins; they're lifeless things," said Karam Elahi, who owns a dress shop.

A sample verse: I'll be hooked for life I'll fling around these lifeless things And maybe you'll be my wife Just so you can wear both of the rings.

Unsexed words were lifeless things I did not care for, and even the weird names of the letters of the alphabet – not ah but ey, not beh but bee – made me feel rebellious.

At the Music and Art School, over 50 years last past we sang "Now upward in wonder, our distant glance is turning, till dull and lifeless things have caught a beauty that daring dreams hath wrought".

Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

Quickly he took all of that lifeless thing to be his food, even feet and hands".

People often think of a jet engine as a cold, lifeless thing.

If the novel is dead - always already - as Iyer suggests, then it'll take more than a dose of reality to infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing lying at our feet.

He looks at the "lifeless thing" at his feet, come to life: "I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs".

Individual catfish swarmed around the tube, occasionally biting it, as if the lifeless thing was prey.