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How to use cadaverous in a sentence

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A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
The body's face was cadaverous and melting, the eyes the only prominent feature.
Next to my large and robust American seat mates, I must have looked positively cadaverous.
You understand why he looked cadaverous long before April 3, 2000, when an assassin cut him down.
Wilner saw him changed by the hunger strike from a happy, outgoing, strongly pro-American young man to a withdrawn, cadaverous, weak figure.
We fine cadaverous fellows do not share your enthusiasm for the sanctity of life, for obvious reasons.
Stubble adorned his thin, cadaverous, scarred face, and remnants of blood stained the ends of his hair.
When you're about 60, the penalty for remaining rockstar-thin is a cadaverous face and hollow cheeks.
Peter shuffled his cadaverous form into the passenger side while I dumped the last of our provisions in the trunk.
Some bouts of serious illness left him with a cadaverous appearance that only enhanced his charisma.
I couldn't have said whether it was the reflection of the snow or something else that gave his face a sickly, cadaverous tint.
Tonight, he seemed cadaverous and oddly unresponsive, almost catatonic.
Instead of looking as pale and cadaverous as a ghost, my countenance is as ruby as the face of a whiskey toper, simply because I get pure air to breathe.
She is skeletally thin, with hollow, cadaverous eyes and cheeks.
He further concluded that these cadaverous particles could adhere to the hands of physicians and thus be transferred to the women, thereby transmitting puerperal fever.
But the cadaverous count does not seem happy about the prospect of moving.
His paintings are violently real, thick, cold and cadaverous as though Thanatos has overcome Eros.
In the cadaverous white mist the herons stood stock-still, like clay Kermis figurines.
In the next bed, I remember, there was an old man so meagre, so cadaverous that his wristbones and the beak of his nose seemed to want to break through his skin.
Examples from Classical Literature
The cadaverous one jotted down something in a pocket-book, and exchanged a few words with his confrere.
There was a silence in which Caradoc stood tall and cadaverous as a ghost.
Save for the extreme, cadaverous pallor, there was no mark of death.
In the small circle of light a long, cadaverous face appeared.
I dressed, looking like the cadaverous ghost I felt myself to be.
But the later stools will again be thin and of cadaverous odor.
His thin, cadaverous face was sufficient in itself to inspire wonder.
The Reverend George was a renegade Highland-man of the cadaverous order.
His spare and cadaverous figure was always clothed in dark colours.
Little wonder the face of teen was as cadaverous as the grave.
You'd want to say of Figgis's liquescent painterly surfaces that they are lush, except the figures so often appear cadaverous.
By degrees the freshest among them began to grow cadaverous and saucer-eyed.
He was a tall, fair man, cadaverous, and a little lackadaisical, with heavy eyelids and a highbridged nose.
Both felt the snake eyes of the cadaverous chief dwelling on their backs.
With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow.
I had stooped and was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the colonel looking down at me.
They possess a quite dazzling and transcendent beauty which separates them by a wide interval from the cadaverous cod and haddock whose fame is trumpeted in our streets.
The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance, nothing of romance, nothing of Oriental splendor.
He was short, cadaverous, and withered, with his head sunk sideways between his shoulders and the breath issuing in visible smoke from his mouth as if he were on fire within.
When the pony-chaise stopped at the door, and my eyes were intent upon the house, I saw a cadaverous face appear at a small window on the ground floor, and quickly disappear.
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