How to Use death in a Sentence

death

noun

• People around the world mourned his death.
• The newspaper did not report the cause of death.
• There has been a death in the family.
• Death could be seen lurking in the corner of the painting.
• The general met his death on the battlefield.
• The number of deaths from cancer is rising.
• He died a violent death.
• The accident resulted in two deaths.
• His mother said her son, known as AJ, had run away from home after the shooting death of his sister weeks earlier.
  — Steven Rich, Andrew Ba Tran and Jennifer Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Vacancies for induction only occur after the death of a member.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• But producers of the series are for now giving time for Payne’s friends and family to absorb his death before moving forward.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
• That same month, Peres Magalhaes was charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony in the death of Ryan.
  — Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• Home was a difficult through rewarding watch, enigmatically telling the story of a family getting past the premature death of a father.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2023
• Decades after her death, Bessette-Kennedy’s minimalist wardrobe still inspires designers and fashionphiles alike.
  — Hannah Malach, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
• The school put out statements in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the war in Ukraine.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The book tells of a farmer found stabbed to death with a sharp object near a rice field.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• Then there are the deaths — the people can’t be replaced.
  — David Fischer and Terry Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
• The cause of death has not been announced in either case.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• She was stunned when Crowe phoned in 1982 to inform her of Bangs’ death.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Williams' death was ruled a suicide by a gunshot wound to the head.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2024
• Munger's death marks the end of an era for Berkshire Hathaway.
  — Garth Friesen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The show appears to have survived its brush with death.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
• This year marked the 30th anniversary of Cobain’s death.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 June 2024
• What impact does Raisi’s death have on Iran and the region?
  — TIME, 20 May 2024
• The cause of death was liver failure, Hayes told Rolling Stone.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Her mother confirmed the death, and said the cause was cancer.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
• For years, a blight of caterpillars had been munching the trees to death.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• The jury found Torres, 53, guilty of capital murder and battery last week in the death of Maurice Isaiah Torres.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2023
• Read: What to read to come to terms with death The process is fairly simple.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The Atlantic, 13 June 2023
• Penny, a former Marine, has pleaded not guilty to the charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in Neely's death.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024