The Jatte had long ago discovered that cold would preserve once-living things considerably longer than open exposure allowed.

Unlike planetariums, natural-history museums, with their emphasis on living and once-living things like tigers and dinosaurs, have made a practice of keeping research scientists on staff.

Manipulation of living things - or once-living things?

Naturally occurring deposits of asphalt/bitumen are formed from the remains of ancient, microscopic algae (diatoms) and other once-living things.

Holden watched in distaste and dread as some blind instinct drew the once-living thing toward the other corpse.

Although it was part of a living or once-living thing, there was no evidence of foliage.

Some part of some once-living thing, surely; but it resembled nothing Davies had seen in twenty-seven years at sea.

Each breath I take is paid for by crushed and digested once-living things.

He now began to talk of all sorts of wounds he had seen or heard of, all sorts of holes in once-living things.

Crude oil found in all oil reservoirs formed in the Earth's crust from the remains of once-living things.