last breath
Example Sentences
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“Despite the best medical care, his condition deteriorated,” Austin wrote, noting that Porter “took his last breath, peacefully surrounded by his loved ones.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
"People have come back to tell me that he had the gentlest soul, he's hard-working - and he was very hard-working right until his last breath."
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
“With you to the last breath and beyond,” the bot told him in another chat Soelberg posted less than two weeks before he died.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
I’ve held someone in my arms as they take their last breath, and my very best friend in the world, we were two of her caregivers for the last three months of her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
In the last breath before dead air, I tell Ty the truth.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
