By that time, the patient may already be dead.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

When he was sure she was dead, Murlock had sense enough to remember that the dead must be prepared for burial.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

In other words, a person who is suffering from the effects of severe cold may seem dead,but still be alive.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

There seemed to be no end to the demand for men to fill the places left empty by dead and wounded soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

If the Jordan River is saved,they say, then the Dead Sea could also be brought back to life.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Hero's family decides to make Claudio believe that she is dead until her innocence can be proved.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

But now -- she is dead,of course, but it is all right it must be all right,somehow.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

If a ship was sailing in the middle of the ocean, a navigator could make mistakes using dead reckoning and no harm would be done.

VOA: special.2011.07.06

But an expert in emergency medicine says a person cannot be worse than dead.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

When he goes to a funeral, he wants to be the dead man."

VOA: special.2010.08.12

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12