How to Use deadly in a Sentence

deadly

1 of 2 adjective

• They launched a deadly attack.
• The two gang leaders are deadly enemies.
• A deadly silence followed his question.
• Officers are allowed to use deadly force if necessary.
• He spoke with deadly seriousness.
• She shoots with deadly accuracy.
• The deaths come amid one of the deadliest years in the city on record.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
• All the while, the town faces a new deadly drug called Great White.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• The crash of the Cessna 550 was the second deadly plane crash in the area in four days.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• Hines is one of 39 people known to survive the deadly leap.
  — Kara Nelson, CNN, 19 Nov. 2023
• The argument turned deadly when one of the men stabbed Sibley in the torso.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023
• Halls signed a plea agreement to settle the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2023
• The long reign of the Byzantines, Tolkien’s letters, Fitzgerald’s swan song, deadly gardens and more.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• Davis was charged with one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon, with a gang enhancement.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
• None of them wanted to shoot something that came from the mouth of a deadly lizard into patients.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• Although the man was not harmed, Garcia still faced assault with a deadly weapon charges.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• This week, the deadliest attack on civilians in Lviv since the war began, at least 10 killed.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2023
• Avery had rolled out his deadly plans with all the guile and strategic know-how that his navy training had taught him.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in the country’s history have occurred in the past 16 years.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• The Israel-Hamas war is the deadliest for journalists on record.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Fentanyl, though, is such a powerful drug that even a small amount can be deadly.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• This was at least the second, if not the third, deadly shark attack that occurred in Mexico in one month.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• But for some groups, including the elderly and young children, the virus can be deadly.
  — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The New York Times added that more than 1,100 people have already been charged in connection with the deadly attack.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• The blaze is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2023
• Forrest Galante has a theory that deadly sea snakes might have something to do with it.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The humor is deadpan and the fights feel deadly in a way that channels a very 21st century, post-John Wick style of snap, crackle and pow.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
• Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• Costs are piling up from the deadly collision, and who is going to pay for it all remains a question.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• Those waves could cause deadly rip currents along beaches in those areas.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Sep. 2023

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deadly

2 of 2 adverb

• I'm deadly serious about making an offer on the house.
• That, of course, led to the blind spot that helped make the Hamas attacks so deadly.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
• The grudge match came with a storied rap beef from 2005 that turned deadly.
  — Bry'onna Mention, Essence, 23 Sep. 2022
• The fires, which turned deadly over the weekend, follow record heat waves in the region.
  — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 14 July 2021
• The dispute then turned deadly when Mr. Guzman choked Ms. Grayson to death.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 8 Aug. 2022
• The combination of the flames, smoke and the crowd pressing to try to flee quickly turned deadly.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• Bryan was filming with his cellphone when the chase turned deadly.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
• Tarantula hawks are said to have among the most painful stings on the planet, deadly when to spiders.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• There have been at least two other shootings this year in the 100 block of Third Avenue North, one of them deadly.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 28 Nov. 2021
• While the tone of the film is light-hearted, the issues tackled are deadly serious.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• To keep your eyes fixed on him throughout a match is both spellbinding and deadly dull.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2022
• Oscar show felt so deadly dull is that nearly all the movie clips were excised from the broadcast.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• The weapon was small enough to be concealed in clothing and — for the first time in history — deadly enough to kill half a dozen people at a time.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 13 July 2023
• The flooding is unusual for the region — one of the last times floods this deadly hit North Africa was in 1927 in Algeria.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• As often happens, the exclusive claims to parts of the holy city often turn deadly.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2021
• And reports on those who died in Lee County showed just how quickly Ian could turn deadly.
  — John Kennedy, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
• Flights can turn deadly even in the hands of experienced pilots.
  — ProPublica, 18 June 2021
• This is deadly serious, this is the real world matters here.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Paramedics deferring to law enforcement may have been what made the 2017 death of William Marshall turn deadly.
  — Beth Schwartzapfel and Cary Aspinwall, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• This is deadly serious and there has to be consequences.
  — Jennifer Hauser, Tara John and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
• The victims of the King Soopers shooting in Boulder, Colo., had no reason to believe a quick shopping trip would turn deadly.
  — Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• In addition to the immaculate iron play, Morikawa is deadly accurate off the tee, which pops at East Lake as a key stat.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• In that terrifying moment, for the dozens of onlookers a late-summer visit to one of the coast’s most scenic spots turned deadly.
  — Quinton Smith, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
• Throckmorton is deadly accurate both in the pocket and on off-platform throws when things break down.
  — oregonlive, 20 July 2021
• Friends of Disney’s told his mom the name of the soldier suspected of selling the deadly fake Percocet to Diamond.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022
• Ten months later, two teen-agers in Colorado launched an attack so deadly that it became known by a single word: Columbine.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Lee will continue to churn up rough seas and cause potentially deadly rip currents along the U.S. East Coast through the weekend.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 15 Sep. 2023
• While that can be mild, severe heat exhaustion — known as heatstroke — can turn deadly.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
• However, the elephants' love for mahua can sometimes turn deadly.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• But Saturday night, the celebration turned deadly as at least 156 people died in a crowd crush, most of them young people.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024