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Example sentences for "deathful"

Lexicographically close words:
deathbed; deathbeds; deathblow; deathe; deathes; deathless; deathlike; deathly; deaths; deathward
  1. An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.

  2. For the deathful hand of Fu-Manchu was stretched over Redmoat, at any hour to loose strange, Oriental horrors upon its inmates.

  3. But bold Krishna drove his chariot, whispered unto him his plan, Arjun placed the young Sikhandin in the deathful battle's van!

  4. Didst thou hide the birth and lineage of that chief of deathful ire, As a man in folds of garments seeks to hide the flaming fire?

  5. On some braver, truer warrior let thy mighty standard shine, Yield thy helmet and thy armour, yield thy gleaming sword and shield, Hide thee from this deathful battle, matchless Karna rules the field!

  6. Dawned a day of mighty slaughter and of dread and deathful war, Ancient Bhishma, in his anger drove once more his sounding car!

  7. End this dread and deathful battle if thy stony heart can grieve, Save the chieftains doomed to slaughter, bid the fated nations live!

  8. Like his teacher Par'su-Rama dyes in purple blood his course, Like a snake of deathful poison Karna guards the Kuru force!

  9. Beneath a rock, his vassals' care Was prompt the ritual to prepare, With deep and deathful meaning fraught; For such Antiquity had taught Was preface meet, ere yet abroad The Cross of Fire should take its road.

  10. The stern-brow'd tyrant roars and tears the ground His watchful horns portend the deathful wound.

  11. At this moment of fearful abstraction, her whole soul was bent with an intensity that touched on madness, on the execution of a project which had rushed into her mind in the moment she heard of Wallace's deathful captivity and destination.

  12. And now the deathless Gods and deathful Earth ‭ He sung, beginning at their either’s birth ‭ To full extent of all their empery.

  13. But Britain's floating bulwarks, with serene And silent pomp, amid the deathful scene Move glorious, and more beautiful display Their ensigns streaming to thy orient ray.

  14. These eyes behold The deathful scene, princes on princes roll'd!

  15. And now the king commands his son to call Old Euryclea to the deathful hall: The son observant not a moment stays; The aged governess with speed obeys; The sounding portals instant they display; The matron moves, the prince directs the way.

  16. The bird of Jove Fierce from his mountain-eyrie downward drove; Each favourite fowl he pounced with deathful sway, And back triumphant wing'd his airy way.

  17. This morning shall unfold The deathful scene, on heroes heroes roll'd.

  18. O may'st thou, favour'd by some guardian power, Far, far be distant in that deathful hour!

  19. Of deathful arts expert, his lord employs The ministers of blood in dark surprise; And twenty youths, in radiant mail incased, Close ambush'd nigh the spacious hall he placed.

  20. The darling object of your royal care Is marked to perish in a deathful snare; Before he anchors in his native port, From Pyle re-sailing and the Spartan court; Horrid to speak!

  21. While yet each shaft flew deathful from his hand: Chief after chief expired at every wound, And swell'd the bleeding mountain on the ground.

  22. To view that deathful eye, and wander o’er Those hands yet red with Hector’s noble gore!

  23. Like furious, rush’d the Myrmidonian crew, Such their dread strength, and such their deathful view.

  24. Grecian bleeds, Not long the deathful dart he can sustain; Or Phoebus urged me to these fields in vain.

  25. She led the way, and thought to overawe by her personal ascendency any irregularity which might be going on; for in the deathful hush to which she had reduced her subjects she does not seem to have dreamt of rebellion.

  26. Conceal'd from Saturn's deathful frown The wild Curetes strove, By chant and cymbal clash, to drown The infant cries of Jove.

  27. Mute look'd the Augur, with his deathful eyes, 124 On the last anguish of their lock'd embrace.

  28. He, who had ruthlessly driven cold steel through the heart of many a victim, felt a chill of horror run through his veins at the deathful hatred he had thus engendered in the unsuspicious soul of his own child.

  29. Honey, fruits, mushrooms, and a variety of grains and vegetables should protect animate creation from his deathful greed.

  30. A relentless frenzy appeared to have seized those who were still engaged in the exterminating feud, while the gods looked on with complacence, as though the deathful affair was a mere tournament.

  31. The whole dissolved itself into a black smoke, pregnant with deathful odors, like the fetid exhalation that hung over the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah.

  32. Means used to make the ceremonial of the Fiery Cross "fraught with deep and deathful meaning.

  33. Beneath a rock, his vassals' care Was prompt the ritual to prepare, With deep and deathful meaning fraught; For such Antiquity had taught 50 Was preface meet, ere yet abroad The Cross of Fire should take its road.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deathful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baneful; brutal; dead; deadly; deathly; destructive; fatal; feral; internecine; killing; lethal; malign; malignant; mortal; pernicious; savage; virulent