How to Use last/dying breath in a Sentence
last/dying breath
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In one of the videos, the bear asks the viewer to take their last breath.
— Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022 -
Not the other that had played a night earlier to their last breath.
— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023 -
Candle wax and tears dropped around the spot where Izaiah Carter took his last breath.
— Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2023 -
Scripture says Jesus hung on the cross from noon to 3 p.m., drawing his last breath.
— Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2024 -
The same house where Tommy grew up and, awfully, took his last breath.
— Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023 -
Nemesis uses her last breath to take the baddie out, saving the kid.
— Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024 -
Shortly after her mother took her last breath, the thought crept in.
— Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022 -
Treyvon was almost three decades younger than was George Floyd taking his last breath.
— Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 8 Mar. 2022 -
There’s often an audible sigh as the last breath comes out.
— Jeremy N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022 -
Even the barely audible rasp of the bow’s hair across a string can conjure the intimate shape of a last breath.
— Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022 -
Scripture says Jesus hung on the cross from noon to 3 p.m., before drawing his last breath.
— Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024 -
Roberta watched Leo take his last breath over FaceTime on the afternoon of Jan. 12.
— Karin Brulliard and Adria Malcolm, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022 -
In his final line, a pitch slide down an octave, Vogler leaned back, closed his eyes and exhaled, evoking the Don’s last breath.
— Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022 -
Tragically, many have taken their last breath on the floor.
— NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023 -
Her mother's close friend who was there when Laura was in labor was beside Liza when the 21-year-old student took her last breath.
— Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023 -
No matter what the score was, no matter what was going on, this team continued to fight to the last breath every single game from the start of the season.
— Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 19 Jan. 2022 -
The very fabric of America was tearing, like the curtain in the Temple ripped asunder when Christ exhaled his last breath.
— Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023 -
The glass tube, we are told, supposedly contains the last breath of Thomas Edison, captured by Henry Ford.
— Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 -
Whether the barely rising and falling ribcage represents restorative sleep or a dying breath is hard to say.
— Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024 -
But now the iconic gag (both literal and figurative) is on its last breath.
— Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023 -
The initiative’s critics, meanwhile, expressed hope that the cityhood effort was on its last breath.
— Greg Bluestein, ajc, 13 Jan. 2022 -
Those intrigued hang onto every update, from the moment they're caught until their very last breath.
— Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024 -
However, prophecies about cable news taking its last breath have not come true — yet.
— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023 -
His last breath, like almost every other moment of the previous twenty-six years of his life, was witnessed by no one.
— Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022 -
One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today.
— Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022 -
Either way, with the last breath of spring training being drawn, new players were anxious to experience their first Wrigley Field opener as Cubs.
— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023 -
Two hundred eighty-seven homeless people took their last breath on the sidewalk, 24 died in alleys and 72 were found on the pavement, according to data from the county coroner.
— New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022 -
The engine sputters a last breath before falling silent, and there is a moment of unnerving quiet before … laughter?
— Paula Aceves, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2021 -
Topo Padilla is expected to address Mandell’s case after the hearing in downtown Sacramento, just yards away from where Brace took his last breath.
— Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 5 June 2024 -
Months after the stallion Laoban drew his last breath, thoroughbred owner Jerry Jamgotchian made a series of seven-figure offers for a stake in the dead horse.
— Tim Sullivan, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
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