How to Use death wish in a Sentence

death wish

noun

• Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.
• And slowly, the balance shifts from a death wish to a survival instinct.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 11 July 2018
• If the answer is yes, liberalism would seem to have a death wish.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 29 Sep. 2021
• Outlook: Scott has 11 freshmen on the roster, which seems like a death wish in an era of no-sit transfers.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
• In African landscapes that are green, brown, blue, and yellow, painting your butt with sharp streaks of black and white seems like a death wish.
  — WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
• Jason Statham returns as Jonas Taylor, a man with two first names and a death wish, but the real star is all of the Megs and their killing spree.
  — Vulture, 9 May 2023
• Even Sigmund Freud believed that all humans have a death wish.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
• As with this season’s premiere, Jamie’s death wish is denied and thank goodness for that.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2017
• Especially when their lives are in the hands of a crazypants liar with a death wish who tried to get his ex-girlfriend/boss killed.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
• Peters’ own death wish rose up soon after his run for governor, as his bars struggled to stay in the black.
  — oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
• My bucket list was morphing into a death wish, even before my first pass across the grass.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
• Fish are dying and Surface users are crying, but first: a cartoon about a modern-day death wish.
  — Wired, 11 Nov. 2019
• Did Trump's 'death wish' comment toward McConnell go too far?
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 Oct. 2022
• When your choices are to go on a death wish of a mission or die, someone will always die, one way or another.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• Wearing your brand new white heels out on a Friday night is basically a death wish, but sometimes, the outfit requires the risk.
  — Danielle Flum, Seventeen, 18 June 2019
• The challenge itself is as amusing as always, but damn do these British queens have a death wish … for their fellow contestants.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
• Eco is only for those with a death wish; this car’s acceleration is leisurely enough.
  — cleveland, 8 Feb. 2020
• Despite her theatrical death wish pronouncement, Guyger and her defense team are still fighting to save her from life in prison.
  — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, 27 Sep. 2019
• That will to negate, to kick at society’s glass jaw and not call it a tantrum, changed when the romantic death wish became actual death, and Gunn had to see that beloved figure, dead on the kitchen floor, over and over again.
  — The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Chris Hemsworth stars as a mercenary with a lowkey death wishHemsworth plays Tyler Rake, a killing machine who takes on what seems like a simple assignment, which of course grows complicated, with lots of twists.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 23 Apr. 2020
• Most of the people sharing photos of domineering goats and marauding boars are not expressing a latent death wish.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Is leaving high blood pressure untreated really a death wish?
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
• On May 29th, the second day of no-hiking conditions, one of the various weather reports indicated that, at around 9 p.m., a two-to-four-hour window might open during which a hike could qualify as a risk rather than as a death wish.
  — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• Recent horror stories about people being trapped on cruise ships as the coronavirus raged from deck to deck would make any pending holiday at sea appear more like a death wish than a restful vacation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• Broder finds something both resonant and amusing in our cultural attraction to these kinds of ultra-romantic death wishes.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 1 May 2018
• Relying on the very system that Trump previously poured tens of millions of dollars into destroying feels otherwise, at best, like a nation fulfilling a death wish.
  — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• Freud, in particular, showered Western letters with now common phrases: repression, death wish, slip of the tongue, denial, transference.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024