The courier was dead dropping the envelope behind the old bookstore when a patrol car drove by.

The courier dead-drops the sealed envelope into the hollow under the bench at midnight.

Every November, we decorate altars for the Day of the Dead to honor our ancestors.

The old theater's dead rooms echoed only the whispers of memories.

The researchers spent an afternoon in the dead room to test the new speaker's frequency response.

The shoreline was littered with dead fishes after the storm.

Before the outdoor interview, the sound engineer fixed a dead cat over the lavalier mic to cut the wind noise.

I noticed a dead pixel near the top-right corner of my laptop screen.

The solemn procession wound through the fog as the dead wagon creaked along the cobblestones.

The old rail yard was filled with dead wagons that no one had touched for years.