DIED in a Sentence

Learn DIED 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 DIED, such as:
1. Her grandfather died ten years ago.
2. The animal began to sicken and soon died.
3. Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.
4. He attained a good old age and died content.
5. The excitement of the audience has died down.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DIED
die
 v.  lose sparkle or bouquet
 v.  to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
dying
 a.  in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
 n.  the time when something ends
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  "He died in camp," said Scarlett flatly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  No, even if Miss Pitty died, she wouldn't leave this spot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  According to the official figures, over one thousand people died during the revolution.
2  He could have died after developing deep vein thrombosis during a flight to Sydney.
3  She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
4  He attained a good old age and died content.
5  Her grandfather died ten years ago.
6  Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.
7  One hundred and twenty people died in China's worst air disaster.
8  A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone.
9  The animal began to sicken and soon died.
10  He died of a heart attack brought on by overwork.
11  The excitement of the audience has died down.
12  His parents kept vigil beside his bed for weeks before he died.
13  The prosecution's case hinged on the evidence of a witness who died before the trial.
14  Stephen died several days later in Whiston Hospital's burns unit.
15  The victim received head injuries from which she died a week later.