And he declared the Vance-Owen plan to be essentially dead.

And since there are no beneficial organisms left in this soil, it's essentially dead.

The doctor told us that Hugh was essentially brain dead.

"My career in the secondary mortgage market is essentially dead," he said.

She could not stay alive without life support, and was essentially brain dead.

Without American support, experts and government officials agree, the ideas were essentially dead on arrival.

The trial, he said, "is essentially dead at this point."

We barely made it in here on our own; we'd never get out alive carrying an essentially dead weight.

Once they have finished growing, feathers are essentially dead structures.

Group litigation was essentially dead in England after 1850.