Sentence examples for literally dead from inspiring English sources

You're literally dead to them".

Without power, he said, hospitals are "literally dead in the water.

Some parts were literally dead in the summer from lack of oxygen.

The operation took its gory code name, Mincemeat, from the fact that its protagonist was literally dead meat.

My soul was left on that pitch, and I think I need a few people to carry me off because I was literally dead.

"The population has gone up again quite a lot, but I can tell you, the place was literally dead," said a local man.

Often people literally dropped dead with heart attacks.

When the Bensons tried moving her to a comfortable pen, she literally dropped dead.

That day saw hours of brutal fighting, overwhelming the ambulances and leaving literally thousands dead on the ground.

For this reason the French term for still life is "nature morte," translating literally as "dead nature".

The man behind the counter responded by having a heart attack and, the director admitted several years later, literally dropped dead.