How to Use deadly in a Sentence
- 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.
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The deaths come amid one of the deadliest years in the city on record.
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Olivia Mitchell,
cleveland,
2 Aug. 2023
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What is the deadly kissing bug?
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Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Sep. 2025
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But the surge has been shadowed by a spate of deadly crashes.
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Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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Road rage sometimes turns deadly.
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Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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All the while, the town faces a new deadly drug called Great White.
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Breanna Bell,
Variety,
13 Dec. 2023
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It shouldn’t be played like some deadly serious game.
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James Fallon,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Why was the storm so destructive and deadly?
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Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Army could have stopped deadly mass shooting, lawsuit says.
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Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Help is on the way for one of New York's deadliest roads.
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Carolyn Gusoff,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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People slow down to see deadly crashes on the highway all the time.
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Armando Salguero Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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In the shelter, he was kenneled with a dog who had deadly parvovirus.
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Maryanne Dell,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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The loss by the other competitors comes with a deadly price.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
15 June 2026
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
14 June 2026
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
25 May 2026
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2026
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Cities in Texas are expected to make the streets safer, not more deadly.
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Jack Fink,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Those waves could cause deadly rip currents along beaches in those areas.
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Leigh Morgan,
al,
6 Sep. 2023
- I'm deadly serious about making an offer on the house.
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The police chase ending deadly is not the first in the last month.
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David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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What makes the Andes virus so deadly?
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Lauren Dunn,
NBC news,
7 May 2026
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Bryan was filming with his cellphone when the chase turned deadly.
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Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2022
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That, of course, led to the blind spot that helped make the Hamas attacks so deadly.
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Dahlia Scheindlin,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Nov. 2023
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To keep your eyes fixed on him throughout a match is both spellbinding and deadly dull.
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Jody Rosen,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2022
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The fires, which turned deadly over the weekend, follow record heat waves in the region.
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Nigel Chiwaya,
NBC News,
14 July 2021
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Oscar show felt so deadly dull is that nearly all the movie clips were excised from the broadcast.
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New York Times,
8 Dec. 2021
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Tarantula hawks are said to have among the most painful stings on the planet, deadly when to spiders.
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Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
12 Sep. 2021
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Flights can turn deadly even in the hands of experienced pilots.
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ProPublica,
18 June 2021
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While that can be mild, severe heat exhaustion — known as heatstroke — can turn deadly.
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Claire Thornton,
USA TODAY,
14 June 2022
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As often happens, the exclusive claims to parts of the holy city often turn deadly.
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The Salt Lake Tribune,
13 May 2021
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Details of how the incident turned deadly later in the night have not been released.
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Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Dec. 2025
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The combination of the flames, smoke and the crowd pressing to try to flee quickly turned deadly.
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Lisa Respers France,
CNN,
8 Nov. 2021
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While the tone of the film is light-hearted, the issues tackled are deadly serious.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2023
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However, the elephants' love for mahua can sometimes turn deadly.
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Kimberlee Speakman,
Peoplemag,
10 Nov. 2022
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Mears said the two cases serve as a reminder that domestic violence can turn deadly.
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Jake Allen,
The Indianapolis Star,
10 June 2022
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Throckmorton is deadly accurate both in the pocket and on off-platform throws when things break down.
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oregonlive,
20 July 2021
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Booth's playful spirit is just one edge of a sword that can turn deadly serious when provoked, even slightly.
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Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
21 Oct. 2022
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The encounter turned deadly within moments.
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Ryan Brennan
april 28,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Some protests turned deadly as security forces fought with trespassers being ejected from the land.
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New York Times,
21 Nov. 2021
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And while much of this might sound deadly serious, Roach’s film is frequently very funny.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
26 Aug. 2025
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And reports on those who died in Lee County showed just how quickly Ian could turn deadly.
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John Kennedy,
USA TODAY,
5 Oct. 2022
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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.
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Sebastian Junger,
National Review,
13 July 2023
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There was always a deadly serious respect shown for all these characters and that event reminds us of that.
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Beatrice Verhoeven,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Nov. 2022
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Plus, what a good reader of Pynchon arrives at is a message in his books that is deadly serious.
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Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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But what makes the storms turn deadly, and how often, meteorologists aren’t sure.
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Leslie Nemo,
Scientific American,
3 Aug. 2021
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Guns are what make intimate partner violence so deadly.
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Sativa Banks,
The Conversation,
4 June 2026
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Simple to maintain, fast to deploy, and deadly effective.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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There’s a deadly-dull mystery thread involving Raffi and Worf.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
15 Feb. 2023
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