- a dead battery.
- a dead issue.
- a dead pallor.
- a dead shot.
- a dead telephone line.
- a dead tennis ball.
- a perfectly idiotic idea.
- a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities.
- an absolutely magnificent painting.
- bushed after all that exercise.
- came to a dead stop.
- Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range.
- dead air.
- dead capital.
- dead coals.
- dead right.
- dead soil.
- dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs.
- dead water.
- he stopped suddenly.
- he was marked as a dead man by the assassin.
- his gums were dead from the novocain.
- I'm dead after that long trip.
- idle funds.
- Latin is a dead language.
- left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained.
- Mars is a dead planet.
- numb to the cries for mercy.
- passersby were dead to our plea for help.
- she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth.
- so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere.
- stagnant water.
- the dead of winter.
- the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio.
- the fire is dead.
- the motor is dead.
- the nerve is dead.
- they buried the dead.
- this is a dead town.
- nothing ever happens here.
- took dead aim.
- utterly miserable.
- was all in at the end of the day.
- was dead tired.
- you can be dead sure of my innocence.
- you're perfectly right.