How to Use lifeless in a Sentence

lifeless

adjective

• The book's plot was lifeless and predictable.
• Around her lay the lifeless body of one of her friends.
  — Isabel Debre, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the comments, many joked about the dead, lifeless fish.
  — Priscilla Aguirre, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
• The photos showed bloodstains on the seats and a lifeless body on the ground.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2022
• The episode ends with Maria lifeless and bleeding out on the street.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 June 2023
• Ted's lifeless body lay in a pool of blood near the kitchen table.
  — Josh Yager, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Wright picked him up and carried his lifeless body back to the house.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Once a free spirit, the lifeless 29-year-old was placed in a bag.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2022
• One of the guns was found sitting on the chest of Holston’s lifeless body.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• In the middle of the dance floor, men and women were sprawled on their backs, lifeless.
  — Reis Thebault and Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
• Glover hands me a nodule, which looks and feels like a small lump of coal, cold and lifeless.
  — Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Boaters found her lifeless body near the crash scene more than a week later.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Then footage of Castile’s lifeless body, his white T-shirt stained red by his blood.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
• Someone placed the pistol at his feet as his lifeless body hung above the crowd.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• The leaves of scorched myrtle bushes hang dull and lifeless.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2022
• That’s about all there is to know about how lifeless and sloppy this game was.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• And lifeless bodies bobbing crazily in the water or half buried in the sand.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• But, when the winter turns the world around us gray, that cool color can start to feel a little lifeless.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2023
• According to Pham, a neighbor had found Cao’s lifeless body on the ground.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Well, from Will Arnett and the lifeless body of Jimmy Kimmel.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• Even when all might be lost in a hopeless desert of lifeless toxic sludge, the future feels bright.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
• New videos recorded in the city show the lifeless bodies of more than a dozen civilians lying on streets.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• One of the men appears to take something from Frazier’s lifeless body before the group walks away.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 21 Apr. 2022
• Her lifeless body was found in an alley near Keefe Avenue and Palmer Street.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
• Two hours passed before a prison staffer went into the cell and found Bulger’s lifeless body.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
• The photos showed what appeared to be two lifeless bodies.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2022
• Brittain's lifeless body, wearing plaid shorts and a T-shirt, can be seen lying face down in a pool of blood.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2022
• About four hours later, Hicks’ son discovered her lifeless body in the same room.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Laurie pulls out the knife just as Allyson opens the door to see her grandmother standing over her boyfriend’s lifeless body.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• The officers entering the room saw her slender frame lifeless on the bed.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024