Example sentences for: deadly

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

  • The museum stores carry the main local products: Persian-style carpets, ornate skullcaps, deadly looking knives in bronze scabbards (which many of the local people carry), stringed instruments, and white jade.

  • Although hanging fire is defined as being the opposite of point-blank , the two are unrelated in the field of firearms: a hang-fire is a `delay in the ignition of the powder charge in a firearm'--not a benign delay but a serious, potentially deadly situation.

  • Couple that with the constant peddling of narcotics to our children and you have a deadly combination that we must do everything we can to stop.

  • 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 Victorious Immune System: Evolutionary biologists speculate that a hypersensitive immune system was needed back when parasites were ubiquitous and deadly.


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