11.   Each year, half of my lights are dead from the moment I first plug them in.

12.   Five minutes later, two of her guests were dead from gunshots to the head, and Stahl was dying.

13.   Fire medics raced to the house and found the victims dead from gunshot wounds.

14.   Four years later, Deciga was dead from wounds suffered in a drive-by shooting on West Granada Avenue.

15.   Going to school on winter days, I saw people on the sidewalks dead from the cold.

16.   Guy was rushed to Ben Taub Hospital, where she was pronounced dead from her injuries.

17.   He was dead from a single gunshot.

18.   Hendricks was found dead from machete wounds at a hotel she operated.

19.   His sister is dead from a heroin overdose, and he has two brothers in prison.

20.   Industry officials and American diplomats said the Turkmenistan pipeline was essentially dead from multiple wounds.