Sentence examples for once dead from inspiring English sources

But once dead, I shan't care.

Once dead, they still tend to remain standing, and instead of rotting they harden even more.

Once dead, however, Ms. Vishneva did look amazing, her supple back bent one last time, now over a stone slab.

During the brief orchestral postlude, Don Alfonso quaffs an obviously poisonous drink and is at once dead on the floor.

Once dead, the victim was flayed, his skin eventually worn by a priest to imitate Xipe Totec.

People so rarely change when they're alive, I assumed that once dead, she was sticking to her original plan.

With the help of an algorithm and some electrodes, he would move his once-dead limb again – a scientific first.

A bunch of unproven players named Matt Kata, Robby Hammock, Jose Valverde, Brandon Webb and Andrew Good helped resuscitate Arizona and turned the once-dead Diamondbacks into contenders in the National League West.

On the sunniest scenario, the advent of laptops has simply made trains a more attractive way to get about, by breathing productive life back into once-dead travel time.

Soldiers or journalists returning for the first time since the depths of civil war sometimes marvel at the transformation of public and private life, how once-dead streets now bustle with Thursday night shoppers and acres of razed buildings have been replanted with palatial new houses.

He was, this once-dead Wally, not the strangest concoction of Homo sapiens genetic material ever presented to me, but he was certainly the most complexly pathetic and ill-starred — a wide-eyed, positive-outlook type, ill at ease and conspicuous in his lumpy flesh, but also strangely serene and on occasion pompous and ribald, like the downstate S.A.E. he was back when life was simpler.