How to Use dead on arrival in a Sentence

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• All the while, a woman was brought in and was declared dead on arrival.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
• And given its tepid reviews, the film seemed dead on arrival.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
• And even if passed, the McCarthy proposal is dead on arrival in the Senate.
  — Erik Wasson, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
• The bill is dead on arrival given Democrats' control of the Senate and the White House's opposition to the measure.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
• Two died in the hospital and four were dead on arrival, the two medical workers said.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
• Any bill the House passes is likely to be dead on arrival in the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Not surprisingly, the Trump peace plan was dead on arrival.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2021
• Offending prospective customers is the best way to make your brand dead on arrival.
  — Salvador Ordorica, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• So their initiatives coming from Biden will be dead on arrival in the Senate.
  — CBS News, 28 July 2024
• The hard-right members of his party have already declared the measure dead on arrival.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Two, described only as a male and a female, were dead on arrival, Nordwick said.
  — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 25 May 2022
• The phone is so good that any other Android phone within the price range of the Pixel A series is pretty much dead on arrival.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022
• Seán Rooney, a member of the Irish battalion, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Many of the proposals will be dead on arrival in the Senate, which Democrats currently control.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• Empty spectacles like Citadel and See were dead on arrival.
  — TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
• But the group’s plan was dead on arrival on Venezuelan shores, where they were outgunned and quickly rounded up by the military.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
• The bill is now, for all practical purposes, dead on arrival.
  — Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• That bill, opposed by the White House and dead on arrival in the Senate, leaving Congress still deadlocked over how to fix a decade's long dilemma with no end in sight.
  — ABC News, 14 May 2023
• Dallas would have been dead on arrival without him Sunday.
  — Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
• The 24-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival, police added.
  — Sammy Mncwabe, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• Despite knowing that this plan would be dead on arrival in the Senate, Johnson moved forward with it anyway.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
• The unidentified man, who officials believe to be in his 20s or 30s, was pronounced dead on arrival.
  — Michelle Del Rey, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Oct. 2022
• She was transported to U of L Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
• The Mitsubishi driver was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2024
• However, after watching the trailer my first thought was that this is a game that is arriving five years too late and will be dead on arrival.
  — Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Their numbers meant any push to veto Moore’s reappointment would have been dead on arrival, lacking 10 votes to push forward.
  — David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
• This bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate, McCarthy is hoping this will bring Biden to the negotiating table.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2023
• This bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate, McCarthy is hoping this will bring Biden to the negotiating table.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Many lawmakers and other observers consider the House bill dead on arrival, which would mean that a Farm Bill may not get passed until 2025.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 4 June 2024
• With that said, the ideas in question are almost dead on arrival anyway because of the film’s dramatically inert structure.
  — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024