Example sentences for: deadly

How can you use “deadly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If I were trying to help him, I would tell him to never ever read from a speech--that just makes the performance even more deadly.

  • Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.

  • The LAT says the dead in Berlin were two men and a woman and says the rioting there may "foreshadow a season of deadly discontent as Kurdish protests spread.

  • The WP runs a piece inside reporting that according to Russian sources, Russian intelligence agents have, for the past several years, quietly recruited scientists to go to Iran and teach their Iranian counterparts how to build missiles to carry deadly payloads as far as 1,200 miles.

  • Hollywood has Father Christmas dying ( The Santa Clause ), killing ( Silent Night, Deadly Night ), and being kidnapped ( The Nightmare Before Christmas ). On television, this season's two most visible Santa ads portray him as an old lech (Victoria's Secret) and a clumsy oaf (Home Depot).


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