lifelessly
adverb
lifelessness
noun
Examples of lifeless in a Sentence
a cold and lifeless landscape
The book's plot was lifeless and predictable.
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Her skin remained cold, her feet lifeless.
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Patti Newton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.
—Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
After a lifeless Friday night loss in which they were held to two hits, and with the dominant Max Fried on the mound Saturday, the Red Sox badly needed the kind of dominant performance Brayan Bello has turned in against the Yankees throughout his career.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Producing such minerals in a lifeless place would probably require acidic conditions or high temperatures—and the area showed signs of neither.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
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Patti Newton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.
—Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
After a lifeless Friday night loss in which they were held to two hits, and with the dominant Max Fried on the mound Saturday, the Red Sox badly needed the kind of dominant performance Brayan Bello has turned in against the Yankees throughout his career.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Producing such minerals in a lifeless place would probably require acidic conditions or high temperatures—and the area showed signs of neither.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for lifeless
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“Lifeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lifeless. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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