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Example sentences for "deadliest"

Lexicographically close words:
deadest; deadfall; deadfalls; deadlie; deadlier; deadline; deadliness; deadlock; deadly; deadlye
  1. After a few passes, all my old love of the art came back to me and all my old skill; and when he made his deadliest and trickiest lunges I parried them without an effort, and could have countered with fatal effect.

  2. Their ultimatum was couched in language of the deadliest insult.

  3. When a prophet arose out of their own supine and torpid ranks he invariably counted his brethren amongst his deadliest antagonists.

  4. Their fawning readiness to carry out her vile commands is the deadliest incidental proof of the corruption which she and her crew of alien idolaters had wrought in Israel.

  5. The story came to the ears of Maurice however, and helped to feed his wrath against the Advocate, as if he were responsible for a plot, if plot it were, which had been concocted by his own deadliest enemies.

  6. He wanted to laugh, but he knew laughter would be the deadliest of insults to Bateese just now.

  7. He forgot that a few days ago she had been his deadliest enemy.

  8. Before all his people he had suffered the deadliest insult that could be offered a man of the Three River Country--a blow struck with the flat of another's hand.

  9. And his enemy, a hundred yards or so away, was a determined wretch--and the deadliest shot he had ever known.

  10. But he who's gone was not my friend, but foe, The deadliest and the stanchest.

  11. Ever on deadliest peril shines the Star with steadiest ray; Ever quail the fiercest hunters when Kargynda turns at bay.

  12. Her face turned white as death, while she held up to my eyes the discoloured disc which proved the presence of the deadliest Martial poison.

  13. The deadliest foe to love is not change nor misfortune nor jealousy nor wrath, nor anything that flows from passion or emanates from fortune; the deadliest foe to it is custom!

  14. For that they were so, makes no doubt to me: given the state of the ship, this was the deadliest possible description of accident that could happen.

  15. Could settle the deadliest quarrel in the country by crooking his little finger.

  16. To me the conversation of these two across the creek appears now as the deadliest kind of duel on which Fate looked on with her cold-eyed knowledge of the end.

  17. It is a stirring picture of those days of daring and of might, when force took the place of justice, and the deadliest blows were the only convincing arguments.

  18. It was well for him that he had taken his place by Sheppard, as regard for the latter alone prevented the deadliest missiles being hurled at him.

  19. I will live," cried Blueskin, with a look of the deadliest hatred at Wild, "to be revenged on you.

  20. And now he was up against the deadliest game of all.

  21. She had freed him from a cell to lead him to the home of the Inspector of Police, the deadliest enemy the world now held for him.

  22. And another of the English ambassadors, who became one of her deadliest enemies, says of her only a few months before her grievous calamities were brought upon her, "There is one cheer and one countenance always on the queen.

  23. Now offers his services to rid the country of some of its deadliest enemies.

  24. Now offers his services to rid the country of some of its deadliest enemies; asks for papers, etc.

  25. What had Jefferson Davis to say to this proposed assassination of the "deadliest enemies" in the North of his great treason?

  26. This remark undoubtedly had reference to the propositions made in the fall to Thompson, and also to Davis, to rid the South of its deadliest enemies by their assassination.

  27. This was about the middle of January, and consequently more than a month after Alston had made his proposition direct to Davis, in writing, to go north and rid their Confederacy of some of its "deadliest enemies.

  28. It is nothing less than "striking at the heart's blood of some of his country's deadliest foes," of whom everybody then knew that Abraham Lincoln was universally regarded in the South as chief.

  29. Is there any room to doubt that this was a proposition to assassinate, by the hand of this man and his associates, such persons in the North as he deemed the "deadliest enemies" of the rebellion?

  30. Afterward, Bucks learned how providential this was, inasmuch as the big fellow was the deadliest shot of the three.

  31. It was with queer sensations that Bucks found himself in a hostile country and with the deadliest enemies of the white man going into camp for the night.

  32. This may appear singular, since the animal itself is one of the deadliest enemies of the buffalo: a large pack of them hanging on the skirts of every herd, and patiently waiting for an opportunity to attack it.

  33. It is often forgotten that some of the deadliest and most effective revolutionary enterprises in the nineteenth century were undertaken without the consent or assistance of the existing governments.

  34. The deadliest danger of propaganda consists of its being issued by the propagandist for his own edification.

  35. After being under the deadliest of shell fire for eight days I was hit, but, thank God, no bones broken.

  36. An “Infernal Din” Artillery fire is the deadliest thing out, and it takes a lot of nerve to stand it.

  37. Since then he had learnt that he was Maurice's deadliest enemy--himself excepted.

  38. They can only be friends at that point where jealousy prompts to the deadliest vengeance; and then it is but a sinister sympathy.

  39. The crimson that has struggled through the brown skin of her cheeks would scarce forsake them in the teeth of the deadliest danger.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deadliest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.