at death's door
Example Sentences
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They want to let patients like Zurawski obtain lifesaving care before they are actually at death’s door.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2023
There was something different happening here: the ex-con at death’s door coming clean with his regrets.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021
Premature grief is the specter hovering over war-torn Yemen’s famine cases — malnourished children at death’s door — in Skye Fitzgerald’s latest dispatch from the Middle East, “Hunger Ward.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2021
And those who were hospitalized were not necessarily Covid-19 holdouts, so fearful of contagion that they came only when they were at death’s door.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020
Nel was getting exasperated with her arrogance, with her lying at death’s door still smart-talking.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
