DEATH in a Sentence

Learn DEATH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for DEATH, such as:

1. Every door may be shut but death's door.
2. He was stabbed to death in a racist attack.
3. To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
4. Whenever we're there she always looks scared to death.
5. Three villagers were hacked to death in a savage attack.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEATH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
death
 n.  the act of dying; the end of life
 n.  the cause of loss of life
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  After his father's death it had taken time to get his head above water, and he did not want Andrew Hale, or any one else in Starkfield, to think he was going under again.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The doctor says it'll be my death if I go on slaving the way I've had to.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Whenever we're there she always looks scared to death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  And that is why I'm here who have no love of death or misery or glory and no hatred for anyone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Scarlett was back again where she had been before she married Charles and it was as if she had never married him, never felt the shock of his death, never borne Wade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  He just looks at me and I--I'm scared to death of what he would do if I told him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  They all waited to hear the news that death had come to their homes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Miss Hope, death in her face, sat erect beside her, holding her sister's skirt in a tight grasp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  I imagine the irony of me being the one to tell him of his son's death will be lost on him, just now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  The people of the town were suffering hardship, privation, sickness and death as severely as the rest of the Confederacy; but Atlanta, the city, had gained rather than lost as a result of the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  All the songs had to do with death and parting and sorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Many of their number had traded easy living for hard death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  Suffocating under feather pillows while death screamed overhead, Scarlett silently cursed Melanie for keeping her from the safer regions below stairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  And she knew Prissy could be beaten to death before she would venture forth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We regret to announce the death of our chairman, Alfred Sidebottom.
17  Prisoners were forbidden to approach the fence under pain of death.
18  Supporters of the death penalty argue that it would deter criminals from carrying guns.
19  Trying to please an audience is the kiss of death for an artist.
20  They wouldn't ask for help unless it were a matter of life and death.
21  We should weep for men at their birth and not a t their death.
22  He was stabbed to death in a racist attack.
23  Three villagers were hacked to death in a savage attack.
24  The district attorney said if McVeigh is given the death penalty and his conviction is upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.
25  Dodd made no appeal of his death sentence and, further, instructed his attorney to sue anyone who succeeds in delaying his execution.
26  Copyright expires seventy years after the death of the author.
27  Every door may be shut but death's door.
28  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
29  Her self-absorption is total - she talks you to death about her health problems.
30  The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.