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Example sentences for "found dead"

  • A human body is found dead; externally there may be no indicia to show positively the cause of death.

  • Wife of the celebrated painter Gurneray; found dead in bed, where a fire had been placed and slowly burnt and charred her lower limbs, belly, chest, and right hand.

  • In the matter of gunshot wounds on persons who took part in the late Civil War, many of whom unfortunately belong to the vagrant class and are often found dead, their wounds sometimes afford excellent means of identification.

  • Woman, found dead, her clothing on fire and lower part of her body burnt.

  • You come up to me in the street, and all the place going round and round, and you say to me, 'Found dead.

  • Can't you tell me what you mean, found dead?

  • The result was that Greaves was found dead.

  • Our special attention was devoted to the room where Greaves had been found dead.

  • It may interest you to know that you will be found dead--shot--which will account for my having waited for you in vain at Whiteladies to-night.

  • He was, however, found dead, in a sort of lumber room, the next morning.

  • The jury retired to consult in an adjoining room, and in ten minutes returned, giving an open verdict of "Found dead.

  • Then he added after a second's pause, "One of the oddest facts in the whole affair is that the pair we found dead in Phillimore Place have never been missed by their friends.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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