How to Use deathless in a Sentence

deathless

adjective
  • The deathless gods destroyed my looks that day / the Greeks embarked for Troy.
    — Gregory Hays, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
  • The eloquence of this thought and feeling, incarnated as affect, proves every year to be deathless.
    — Sophie Lewis, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Blood doors, creepy tombs, deathless foes, and someone doing a hell of a good impression of actor Sam Neill.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Those six words are a deathless expression of progressivism in 2022.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • There are dowdy newscasters risking frostbite to gin up color pieces on deathless topics like the contents of the athletes’ goody bags.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The natural result is that the media, which must cover the president, reports on his deathless feud with Clinton.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
  • In fact, his deathless prose is probably being desecrated by the relentless erosion of evolution right now.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2010
  • Writers’ moods certainly don’t work that way; after all, Malamud wrote at least a half-dozen deathless short stories and a couple of classic novels … and still felt sunk.
    — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This memento mori is an intrusion of tragedy into an otherwise deathless space, but the ghost is also a hopeful sort of figure who somehow manages to elude oblivion.
    — Annika Neklason, The Atlantic, 26 June 2018
  • What becomes extremely clear is that their endurance for creating music is plainly the product of a neurotic, serious, deathless motor.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • There is the deathless debate around the compatibility — or otherwise — of winning and entertaining.
    — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This may not be deathless prose, but Google’s AI, which works by interpolating new sentences to link sentences it is provided, seems to have captured something of the genre.
    — Stephen L. Carter, The Denver Post, 3 May 2017
  • And yet My Bloody Valentine’s stature continues to grow, with Loveless serving as a deathless testimonial.
    — Scott Thill, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2011
  • That stuff is deathless, and in Sammy Glick, Schulberg invented one of the most enduring craven strivers in American literature.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But the whole thing feels lightly enchanted because what captures Pamuk’s attention is not morbidity and mortality but the steady deathless roll of events, and above all the strange fate of his fictional island.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • His ethereal, atmospheric images respectfully capture the quest for immortality in Russia, home to a visionary gaggle of cosmists, cryonicists, and transhumanists who believe in a deathless future.
    — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • Brides finds Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband on a trip to Northern Italy in 1961, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova (Lawtey), who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women (Turner-Smith, Prettejohn) and their caretaker (Gorman).
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025

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