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Example sentences for "quite dead"

  • This led to a further examination, and it proved to be the body of their unfortunate master, lying on his back in the stream, with his feet towards the road, quite dead.

  • Some difficulty was at first experienced in obtaining admittance; but the back area door having been forced, the unfortunate woman was found lying in a front room on the basement story, with her throat dreadfully cut and quite dead.

  • The other hunters then attacked and killed him; but they found their comrade, who was still hanging in the tree, quite dead.

  • It is quite dead, so let us drag it out of the water, and send it up to Mahomed by Omrah.

  • Oswald's quite dead, that's certain; nobody could fall over such a precipice as that without being killed a dozen times over before he even reached the bottom.

  • They are dead, quite dead, dead before they reached the ground even.

  • The poor things were placed on the roof or deck, and were immediately assailed by the crew, when, following their natural instinct, they lay as if quite dead.

  • To-morrow morning we shall be quite dead; and you must tell little Ida to bury us in the garden, near to the grave of the canary; then, in the summer we shall wake up and be more beautiful than ever.

  • It was a woman; the sailors said that she was quite dead, but the women thought they saw signs of life in her, so the stranger was carried across the sand-hills to the fisherman's cottage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    existing things; fair sister; like manner; little ones; moment looking; quite alone; quite certain; quite clean; quite clear; quite early; quite easy; quite gone; quite hardy; quite independent; quite natural; quite otherwise; quite plain; quite simple; quite small; quite smooth; quite suddenly; quite the; quite unnecessary; quite wrong; transition period; would leave