That was followed by a click and a dead line.
He knew the dead line on which these blades could ride.
We must come out on a dead line with the north end of Gagesti.
Through it, he would enter the house ahead of the dead line.
He had picked half past ten as the dead line for a signal.
It was as if she'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building.
We picked our way carefully across the dead lines towards it.
Jeff said, but he was talking to a dead line.
I was talking to a dead line; he'd hung up.
The police had set up a "dead line" that the protesters were not supposed to cross.