lifeless - use in sentences

Modifying Another Word

  • seemingly: Safely inside the crate, we all peered through the cracks at the prone and seemingly lifeless form.
  • apparently: The apparently lifeless universe that you see beyond our planet is an illusion, due to lack of knowledge.
  • almost: I cannot refuse her, for I feel almost lifeless.
  • rather: What fish could be seen all seemed rather lifeless.
  • so: Tidying up bits of the city is fine, but why does the Center and Old Market look so lifeless now?
  • very: It's turning into a very lifeless website now.

Preposition: on

  • ground: Up to six arrows are embedded in the victim, who lies slumped lifeless on the ground.

Preposition: as

  • stone: Until you find the Kingdom of Hades, your bodies will stay as lifeless as stone.

Modifies a noun

  • corpse: By nature, at birth, spiritually we are like a lifeless corpse!
  • body: She is leaning over a lifeless male body laying on a train platform.
  • planet: On an almost lifeless planet in a remote star system, Earth Colony Phoenix is struggling to survive.
  • object: Its residues were lifeless objects which looked best under museum lighting.
  • eye: He glares into your white, lifeless eyes with distain, his wings flitting behind him powerfully.
  • thing: I get what your saying about the lifeless thing but i'm in that kinda state anyway so it doesnt bother me.

Used with adjective complement

  • lie: After a while the boy lies almost lifeless in a ditch.
  • seem: What fish could be seen all seemed rather lifeless.
  • fall: With an insane laugh, TIM released the girl from his grip and she fell lifeless to the ground at Liz ' feet.
  • feel: I cannot refuse her, for I feel almost lifeless.
  • become: Later on, therefore, his poetry becomes lifeless.
  • look: Tidying up bits of the city is fine, but why does the Center and Old Market look so lifeless now?

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