People often think of a jet engine as a cold, lifeless thing.

Soucek smiled again, his thin-lipped mouth an ugly, lifeless thing.

She moved with the curiously stiff steps of a lifeless thing - an inanimate statue.

He rose, went to collect the grotesque, lifeless thing in its black glove.

Museum houses can be dry and lifeless things.

Rising at last he flung the lifeless thing from him with a shudder of disgust.

Soon the lifeless thing was drifting aimlessly out of the arena.

The windwagon sat where they had left it, sails reefed, a dark and lifeless thing.

For several days, she lay in the den like a lifeless thing, barely able to swallow or open her eyes.

Now it was a thing of darkness, lifeless, a crack running down its center.