already dead
Frequency: 8.518.1 per million words
Used to state that a person or thing was deceased before a certain point in time.
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Examples (20)
- When the paramedics arrived, the victim was already dead.
- By the time the police arrived, he was already dead.
- The coroner's report confirmed he was already dead before the car crashed.
- The paramedics tried to revive her, but she was already dead.
- She ran to his side, but she knew in her heart he was already dead.
- When the conservationists found the whale, it was already dead, tangled in fishing nets.
- By the time they offered the funding, the project was already dead.
- His ambition was already dead long before he officially quit the project.
- Was he already dead when you found him?
- The doctor's report concluded that the patient was already dead upon impact.
- Despite their frantic efforts, they couldn't save him; he was already dead.
- It was a tragic discovery; the ancient tree was already dead from a fungal disease.
- The plant was already dead by the time I remembered to water it.
- The villain revealed that the hero's mentor was already dead before the final battle began.
- They thought they could save the company, but it was already dead, crippled by debt.
- We feared the worst, and our fears were confirmed: he was already dead when we reached him.
- The hero swung his sword, only to realize the zombie was already dead.
- According to the coroner, the victim had been already dead for at least 24 hours.
- There was nothing we could do; the animal was already dead.
- Is it possible the star was already dead for millions of years before its light reached us?