Sentence examples for like lifeless from inspiring English sources

Infants with twig-thin legs languish like lifeless dolls in oversize beds.

The law did not stop Shah Bibi's children being sold secretly like lifeless commodities.

The big sell of "sleep learning" is seductive – how lovely it would be to be productive while we lie like lifeless lumps in bed.

They are left limp and hanging like lifeless heads on broken necks.

Shulaprota (pierced by sharp pointed spear/dart): Some people give shelter to birds or animals pretending to be their saviours, but then harass them poking with threads, needles or using them like lifeless toys.

During their hospital stay, often while sitting in bed, the patients very rapidly classified words on a computer screen, words like: lifeless, thrive, myself, deceased, they, theirs, survive, breathing.

TASTING notes for the 2004 Bordeaux — the stony French city, not its famous wine — might have read something like this: lifeless and bland; aromas of dirt and dust; a once majestic city well past its prime.

Watt calls them Echoes because she "sees them as reflections of each other, of the past, of memories, of the lost elements of our humanity, the sadness of our Earth… standing dormant in the shadows like empty, lifeless vessels, waiting for the moment when they inherit a soul," the artist adds.  .

He feared he might die like the lifeless student beside him.

If they worry about being treated like a lifeless object, find a doctor who has a reputation for being very kind and engaging, and so on.

Antonio Carreno's mixed-media works on paper are Matta-like, but they are lifeless and dull.