more dead than alive

Example Sentences

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There’s an ongoing jazz renaissance in Los Angeles, one loosely rooted in the genre’s prematurely and cyclically proclaimed death — the same way the city’s celebrities tend to become franchises in the afterlife, worth more dead than alive.

From Los Angeles Times

When the sun finally rose in a brilliant pink sky, it shone on twenty-eight men who were more dead than alive.

From Literature

“The purpose is to show why Citigroup has a reason to exist. The stock market says that Citigroup is worth more dead than alive.”

From Reuters

“A stroke! You upset me, my blood pressure shot up, I collapsed at the top of the cellar steps. Your mother found me on the kitchen floor, unconscious. Your father called an ambulance. They put a tube down my throat, they put something over my mouth. How could I tell anyone where you were? I was more dead than alive.”

From Literature

He added: “You have to go back to the money. Jimmy Hendrix died, but the money kept flowing for many, many years afterwards. Sometimes an actress is worth more dead than alive. You've got to look at who's collecting the money now? I don't know. Every time the movie comes on, someone is getting paid. Whoever's got the money knows the truth.”

From Fox News