dead as a doornail in a sentence

Examples

1. The prospect of moving this highway, I think it can be safely said, is dead as a doornail.
2. I'm dead as a doornail.
3. Where else could a unicorn, dead as a doornail in one tapestry, come back to life in the next?
4. "I foresee the peace process being dead as a doornail, " said Harry Leichter, an Israeli supporter from Fairfax, Va.
5. He has called the party " dead as a doornail " for abandoning its liberal roots, particularly in the Clinton years.
6. We're not asking them to do that even though their budget is dead as a doornail, " a senior administration official said.
7. At the CompUSA off Duke Street in Alexandria, Brian Swan, a customer service representative, said the store had been " dead as a doornail ."
8. In the fifth novel, " Dead as a Doornail ", Alcide involves Sookie in the battle for pack leader between his father and Patrick Furnan.
9. "Dead as a doornail, " my mother declared that morning as I worked compost into the planting holes and she sipped her Irish Breakfast tea.
10. The season ( and thus its episodes ) is loosely based on " The Southern Vampire Mysteries " fifth book " Dead as a Doornail ".