| It struck out at him with the speed and deadliness of a cobra. |
| In the past few years, the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other terrorist elements have embraced tactics that target civilians with increasing deadliness. |
| No one with any sense would place a trap of such deadliness so close to a populated area. |
| It was the recommencement of religious civil war, with more deadliness than ever. |
| The pregnant silence is almost eerie as it spreads round the room, reaching every corner, suffocating me as I inhale its intoxicating deadliness. |
| Beginning more than two millennia ago Scythian archers dipped their arrowheads into manure and rotting corpses to increase the deadliness of their weapons. |
