How to Use dead in a Sentence

dead

1 of 3 adjective

• He lay dead on the floor.
• The poster said that the robbers were wanted dead or alive.
• The lost mountain climbers were believed dead.
• I'm dead if I come in late for work again.
• He was found dead in his apartment yesterday.
• If I ever get my hands on you, you're dead!
• Her husband is dead. He died last year.
• Our legs were completely dead after hiking all day.
• The dead will stay dead this year.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025
• My feet were now the feet of a dead man.
  — Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
• How is there so much life in this dead man?
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
• Trim off dead roots, bulbs, stems, and canes.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
• The blooms can cause dead zones and fish kills.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
• The dude found dead in the ranch with his throat slit.
  — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• The three are presumed to be dead.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 29 May 2026
• He was found dead five days later.
  — Evan Hill, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2026
• The next regime is mostly dead.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
• He was declared dead at the scene.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
• Bassi was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
• The teen was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 15 June 2026
• People say that this type of thing is dead.
  — Jay Glennie, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
• He was decalred dead at the scene.
  — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026
• She was declared dead at the scene.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
• Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Austin Turner, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
• He was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Austin Turner, CBS News, 28 June 2026
• In many cases, the males may end up dead.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
• The moose was dead a minute after he was shot.
  — Fred Bear, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
• He had since been declared brain dead.
  — ABC News, 25 June 2026
• Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2026

dead

2 of 3 noun

• By the end of the war, there were over two million dead.
• He began his journey in the dead of winter.
• The dead have been found in their cars, homes, and in snow banks.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
• The dead have been found in their cars, homes and in snowbanks.
  — Carolyn Thompson and Jake Beiberg, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
• Here, the names of the dead can be spoken and the agony of loss can be shown.
  — Matt Sedensky, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• My longest walk and talk was three hours long—in the dead of winter.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Sep. 2022
• Its chirps are piercing, if perhaps not loud enough to wake the dead.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• This isn’t your 25 cent brick ramen boiled in the dead of night.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 4 Mar. 2022
• Her children took her body in the dead of night to bury it properly.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Fire crews soon pronounced the driver of the Ram dead at the scene.
  — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 31 July 2026
• In the span of a week, the count of the dead nearly tripled in Michigan.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
• Vicaria is going to put an end to all this death… by bringing the dead back to life.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• Later that night, someone stole five chickens from the park and left a sixth dead.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• In the dead of winter, this is much easier than yanking a pull cord.
  — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
• Burials also reveal the range of ways in which humans lay their dead to rest.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Officers met with medics at the scene who declared an adult female dead.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
• The dead may not have been raised, but anyone who had fallen asleep was surely woken up.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
• Walking around campus, even in the dead of winter, helps center her.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
• In the dead of a moonless night, lost in a bayou, with slave trackers in hot pursuit, all hope seems lost.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
• Officers found the 5-month-old and the two-and-a-half-year-old dead in the tub, police said.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2022
• Once the fog of chaos lifted, the police and the protesters both gathered their dead.
  — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
• In Lewistown, the county seat, finding people who knew some of the dead is easy.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
• This hydrating, silky-smooth pick by Givenchy is perfect for the dead of winter.
  — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2022
• The man was put in contact with the article's author, who was able to point him to the field where the dead were buried.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2022
• The Navy helped turn one of the few places where its dead still rest in view of the living into a recreation stop.
  — Jon Duffy, Twin Cities, 27 May 2026
• In the dead of night, at a remote mansion tucked far away from prying eyes, a group of men and women convene.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2022
• Simply trying to understand is one way to honor the dead and serve the living.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2022
• Iran cannot, because the people who made so many thousands of our dead are still the people in charge, still adding to the count.
  — Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026
• Local authorities hurried to bury the dead from the past two weeks of fighting in a mass grave in the city.
  — Vgeniy Maloletka, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Practice military parades have been held on the streets of London in the dead of night.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022

dead

3 of 3 adverb

• We were dead tired by the end of the day.
• They were both dead drunk and passed out on the floor.
• She finished the race dead last.
• She's dead certain that she can finish the job.
• He's not joking. In fact, he's dead serious.
• The place was ordered to be dead silent.
  — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
• Do dead hangs and pullups 3 times a week to strengthen your game.
  — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• This has to be dead serious now.
  — Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
• And of course, just like all of their other grandiose claims, this one is dead wrong.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Both ranked dead last in the major leagues among full-time hitters.
  — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• The Raiders ranked dead last in rushing success rate and sack rate.
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• The woods were dead silent except for the sound of her huffing and sniffing.
  — Todd Orr, Outdoor Life, 30 July 2026
• Meghan Markle wouldn't be caught dead wearing florals for spring.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Mar. 2023
• The Cavaliers rank dead last in the league in terms of tempo.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Police searched the home and found Wright and Reed dead inside.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• That the battery will be dead simple to replace when the time comes is a small comfort.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 July 2022
• The Minnesota House is split dead-even.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 June 2026
• The film is about two teenagers dead set on doing revenge on each other’s nemesis.
  — Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
• Healthy new growth could also emerge from a dead-looking branch after the weather warms.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2026
• Most of the dead died from Russian bombs, missiles, and their wreckage.
  — ELLE, 24 May 2022
• Anyone who claimed Cage didn’t care about his career during this era was dead wrong.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
• Leoni’s brother, John, broke in to find their mother dead inside.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Winter can be tough on houseplants, but don't go throwing out a dead-looking plant just yet.
  — Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 21 Feb. 2026
• And preferences for working full-time in person came in dead last at 9%.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2022
• Vary this exercise by dead-hanging with your palms facing toward you.
  — Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• Currently, the Cowboys rank dead last against the pass and bottom-five against the run.
  — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• The Broncos rank dead last in first- and second-down success this season.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
• Steve winds up dead in the pool in the first season’s finale, putting a violent bow on his one-season arc.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 9 June 2023
• Going off at 1-2, Gallant Fox had been thought a dead-sure slam dunk.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
• Check for any green foliage and examine the root ball before tossing a dead-looking plant.
  — Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 21 Feb. 2026