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. There is no medicine against death.
2. I'm absolutely sick to death of it.
3. Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
4. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
5. To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DEATH
death
 n.  the time when something ends
 n.  a final state
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  All the songs had to do with death and parting and sorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Many of their number had traded easy living for hard death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I'm absolutely sick to death of it.
2  She was learning to accept the inevitability of death.
3  You admit you fired the gun and we now know that the shot killed the victim so you are, ipso facto, responsible for his death.
4  He is interested in how our perceptions of death affect the way we live.
5  There is no medicine against death.
6  After her death, it came out that she'd lied about her age.
7  At the age of nine, he had the death of both parents to contend with.
8  He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death.
9  It was almost impossible to pinpoint the cause of death.
10  The grief she felt over Helen's death was almost unbearable.
11  She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
12  Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for American women in their forties.
13  Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
14  The animal seizes its prey by the throat and suffocates it to death.
15  It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Mr Fred Fisher.