She was already hours dead and hours in the water by this moment.

It was the dead hour of the siesta, when very few people were about.

It will be proven that he was dead hours before you.

Blade runners kept their appointments at the dead hours between.

Heard in that dead hour and singular place, the effect was thrilling.

Never in his life had he walked through a great city at the dead hour.

They arrived ten minutes too late to find him dead, as in dead for 24 hours.

What a damned, shameful way to feel with her husband no more than a few hours dead!

"You can't take it to court yet, but this guy was dead hours before the bird came down."

Was the man he had had dinner with only hours ago really dead?