death wish

Example Sentences

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If Evy is virtually alone in a house where strange noises are occurring at all hours, what would possess her to put on noise-canceling headphones, other than a death wish?

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

The director has said that he interprets the death wish in the opera as part of the cycle of rebirth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Some, like his biographer Ritz, saw it as the culmination of Gaye’s death wish and thought, “So that’s how he did it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

I don’t have some kind of death wish.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Perhaps going north would be the unexpected choice; no one went north in winter unless they had a death wish.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas