DIED in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for DIED, such as:

1. She died of a brain tumour.
2. The wind died down quite a lot.
3. Both of them died in abject poverty.
4. He died of a massive brain haemorrhage.
5. The accident victim died from her injuries.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
died
 v.  (past tense) stop living; pass away, pass gradually
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Unhappily Orin Silver, a man of far-reaching aims, had died too soon to prove that the end justifies the means.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Words of resistance rushed to Ethan's lips and died there.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  When the twins left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had died away, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  There was a steely quality under her stately gentleness that awed the whole household, Gerald as well as the girls, though he would have died rather than admit it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  He was gone and the memory of his stricken face would haunt her till she died.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything--heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Till the day she died there would be blank spots in her memories of those days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Uncle Peter practically raised Melanie and me, for we were very young when Father and Mother died.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  "He died in camp," said Scarlett flatly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Scarlett knew that Rhett was not being patriotic and, though she would have died rather than confess it, she did not care.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  No, even if Miss Pitty died, she wouldn't leave this spot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The accident victim died from her injuries.
17  This pillar is a monument to all those who died in the civil war.
18  An unnamed man collapsed and died while he was walking near Dundonald.
19  I felt great pity for the woman whose baby died.
20  His interest in the project declined after his wife died.
21  The wind died down quite a lot.
22  It was too late to save the sick woman, and she died.
23  He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
24  My mother had just died and I found the book very comforting.
25  Both of them died in abject poverty.
26  After both their parents died, one of their father's relatives carted off the entire contents of the house.
27  He died of a massive brain haemorrhage.
28  She died of a brain tumour.
29  Shortly after his admission into hospital he had a massive brain haemorrhage and died.
30  She died of shock following an operation on her brain.