How to Use demise in a Sentence

demise

noun

• Losing this game will mean the team's demise.
• She had no property at the time of her demise.
• The musician met an untimely demise.
• We have not had truly local news coverage since the town newspaper's demise three years ago.
• Even then, the law could still meet its demise in the courts.
  — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
• The fate of the losers, on the other hand, is a gruesome demise.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
• The move wasn’t related to the demise of the deal, one of the people said.
  — Ian King and bloomberg, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022
• But here’s the piece of Chang’s demise that troubles me.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
• The railroad meant the demise of the Riverboat gambler.
  — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the wake of the effort’s demise, Democrats blamed each other.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 19 June 2019
• But the demise of precedent has long been a hallmark of the Trump era.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2022
• The final straw came in 1991, with the demise of the Soviet Union.
  — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
• Several of the band members said that the show led to the act’s demise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• No, there is more to the demise of unions than K-street lawyering.
  — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2018
• By the end of the video, each man reaches the top of a ledge and jumps off to their seeming demise.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
• The Tigers didn't draw a walk and struck out 13 times — a key reason for their demise.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2021
• One reason is that El Niño sows the seeds of its own demise.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• But, anyway, that contributed to the demise of the lead.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 June 2021
• Black holes aren’t, like, a demise and the end of everything.
  — Michael Greshko, Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• As the Willis enter the stage, their dance reenacts their demise.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2022
• The demise of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age was treated simply as a matter of fact.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
• He has been resigned to the building’s demise for some time.
  — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2019
• The exact date of Lathrop Glacier’s demise isn’t known.
  — Carisa Cegavske, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2021
• Failure to do so may be the result of his demise at Texas Tech.
  — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
• Pilots, too, may have played a role in the airplane cure’s demise.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2017
• Best of all, Mr. Hinx's screen demise was left open-ended.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 June 2018
• Arrieta started three of those games, this time part of the demise rather than the cure.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
• But its demise, that longed-for time when the world can declare the scourge crushed, is a more slippery thing.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2021
• But repression may not have been the only factor in the movement’s demise.
  — Christina Knight, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
• People gather around the flames to sing, dance and pray for an evening ritual called Holika Dahan, which re-enacts the demise of a Hindu mythical demoness, Holika.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024