How to Use lifeless in a Sentence

lifeless

adjective
  • The book's plot was lifeless and predictable.
  • Around her lay the lifeless body of one of her friends.
    Isabel Debre, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In the comments, many joked about the dead, lifeless fish.
    Priscilla Aguirre, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The photos showed bloodstains on the seats and a lifeless body on the ground.
    New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • The episode ends with Maria lifeless and bleeding out on the street.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 June 2023
  • Ted's lifeless body lay in a pool of blood near the kitchen table.
    Josh Yager, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Wright picked him up and carried his lifeless body back to the house.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • Once a free spirit, the lifeless 29-year-old was placed in a bag.
    CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • One of the guns was found sitting on the chest of Holston’s lifeless body.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Theone’s lifeless body was on the floor, her arms crossed over her chest.
    NBC News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The next day, Alsheikh saw her son's lifeless body for the first time.
    Allison Norlian, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • In the middle of the dance floor, men and women were sprawled on their backs, lifeless.
    Reis Thebault and Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The voice stoplight on the whiteboard, which tracks the noise level in the room, was lifeless.
    Kevin Reynolds, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2020
  • In it are chunks of white fish, meaty mushrooms and dozens of splayed and lifeless ants.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Glover hands me a nodule, which looks and feels like a small lump of coal, cold and lifeless.
    Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Boaters found her lifeless body near the crash scene more than a week later.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The core story and missions are not fleshed out, and the world can feel lifeless at times.
    Jess Grey, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In the third game of the five-game series, already in an 0-2 hole and trailing, the A’s dugout was lifeless.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Then footage of Castile’s lifeless body, his white T-shirt stained red by his blood.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Someone placed the pistol at his feet as his lifeless body hung above the crowd.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The leaves of scorched myrtle bushes hang dull and lifeless.
    Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2022
  • That’s about all there is to know about how lifeless and sloppy this game was.
    Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • But the skeleton isn’t just a lifeless scaffolding for the rest of your flesh.
    Alex Schwartz, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The post included pictures of what appeared to be holes and streaks of blood on the lifeless body of the whale.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • So why does Nichols’ film feel so lifeless, and so listless?
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 June 2024
  • And lifeless bodies bobbing crazily in the water or half buried in the sand.
    The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But, when the winter turns the world around us gray, that cool color can start to feel a little lifeless.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The back doors flung open and the Iraqi medics brought the stretcher down carrying the girl’s tiny, lifeless body wrapped in a blanket.
    Alex Kay Potter, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • According to Pham, a neighbor had found Cao’s lifeless body on the ground.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • The hotel then placed a red tent over his lifeless body, which fell near tables and chairs on the hotel’s patio.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 17 Oct. 2024

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