How to Use the dead in a Sentence

the dead

noun

• As the group worked, the dead plants piled up at the edge of the stand of trees.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Later in the day, services were held to mourn the dead.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• There are few places in the world like the Mütter, where the living come to learn from the dead.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• What kinds of care are possible for the living and for the dead?
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Even the dead, the 19-year-old said, tears streaming down her face, cannot rest in peace in Ukraine.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• This includes using it through the ice in the dead of winter.
  — David A. Rose, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2024
• The craze has prompted long lines outside of Target stores in the dead of night.
  — Tribune Content Agency, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
• When faced with a run like this — Estragon: All the dead voices.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
• Ditch the dead weight and clutter, and clear a passage forward.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• When people saw a man being raised from the dead, the news spread like wildfire.
  — Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Risers, or stacking shelves, can help fill the dead space.
  — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• File the callus down until all the dead skin is removed.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
• The city’s hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed, unable to cope with the influx of the dead.
  — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• The drivers of both vehicles were among the dead, and a 2-year-old boy was the only survivor.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2024
• Then the dead trees will be turned to mulch that will be spread around those still standing on the National Mall.
  — Emily Hung, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
• When the trap is full, discard the dead insects into the trash, re-bait, and add water to reuse the trap.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• Prince Harry’s book is a yawp of grief for the dead which spares little mercy for the living.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• Then Christine surrenders to the warm grass and is brought up short by a smudge of pink that is and isn’t the dead Vivian.
  — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• In some versions of the account, Columba raised the luckless swimmer from the dead.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• Details about the dead have been slow to surface, but even the bare facts are harrowing.
  — Kyle Rempfer, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• Mail gets sent to the dead all the time — ads, renewal notices, unpaid bills.
  — Rob Goyanes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Birds of prey and other animals will dispose of the dead fish.
  — The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2024
• Bonded by disaster, Cameron and Gary try to figure out what to do with the dead body.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
• Since the dead bodies had little flesh, the men would cut out and consume the lungs and other innards.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• John and Eliza Little walked hundreds of miles from Cairo, the state’s southernmost point, to Chicago in the dead of night.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Some will steal your likeness and reproduce it; some will mimic the voices of the dead.
  — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• First, Selena Gomez brought white nail polish back from the dead.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2024
• The story of conflict is often told in battles and the cold numbers of the dead, in anecdotes of horror and lists of weapons.
  — Natalie Keyssar, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• This dirge for the dead is also an affirmation of life.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• The only thing that has any weight in this particular essay is the dead.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024