death throes

Seven months after the attack on the government center, the al Qaeda insurgency was in its death throes.

It's not all useless back surgery and unnecessary appendectomies and needlessly prolonging Grandma's death throes.

The few employees left are waiting to see what unfolds as the company goes through the death throes of bankruptcy.

And where there had been one huge writhing cable, now there were horribly two, lashing and flopping in the death throes.

I waited on deck and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea.

Her love, by her awful position, was frightened into its death-throes.

The chaparral opened and closed again; and then only Oliver and the man in his death throes were remaining.

One of the assassins climbed down the steep hillside and approached the body of Nick Combs, who was then in his death-throes.