DEADLY in a Sentence

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And at the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEADLY
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deadly
 a.  fatal; lethal; causing or tending to cause death
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Of the two pills in that box one was of the most deadly poison, and the other was entirely harmless.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  It would be quite as deadly, and a good deal less noisy than firing across a handkerchief.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  A gander who had been privy to the plot had confessed his guilt to Squealer and immediately committed suicide by swallowing deadly nightshade berries.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  Whymper, his face deadly pale, came racing up the path on his bicycle, flung it down in the yard and rushed straight into the farmhouse.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
6  And at the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
8  He turned of a deadly hue, and a sudden horror seemed to fall upon him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
9  To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
10  The deadly statistical clock very hollow.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
11  The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  It was impossible to hush her; and it was deadly necessary to hold her, or she would have flung herself down the shaft.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
13  Finally, there arose betwixt Isaac and his satellites a deadly feud, concerning the quantity of wine and ale to be allowed for consumption at each meal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  Beside this deadly apparatus stood four black slaves, whose colour and African features, then so little known in England, appalled the multitude, who gazed on them as on demons employed about their own diabolical exercises.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  She felt his experience had been deeper and wider than her own; much deeper and wider, and perhaps more deadly.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
16  What could be more deadly dull than the monotony of punching numbers into a computer hour after hour?
17  They feared the plague and regarded it as a deadly scourge.
18  The bloodless takeover stood in marked contrast to a deadly raid of another Gaza aid ship this week.
19  "Zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he tried to vaporize another deadly foe.
20  This deadly species of jellyfish is only found in certain areas of the world, mainly in Australia.
21  Swooping in for the hunt, the long-eared bat takes on the deadly deathstalker scorpion on foot;this scorpion's venom is so strong it is capable of killing a human.
22  Authorities are now scrabbling to piece together where he went and who he encountered, in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly virus.
23  Brazil is deadly serious about developing young footballers in a factory-like environment, shattering the romantic image of bare-footed youngsters honing their skills on ramshackle streets and sandy beaches.
24  When the great fish flipped over on its back,we knew it was almost dead.
25  To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
26  He who has lost his good name is a dead man among the living.
27  Vultures circled over a dead animal.
28  At the sight of the dead animal, Diana blenched.
29  She blenched at the thought of picking up the dead animal.
30  He shuddered when he saw the dead animal.