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

Carter found that such high-sensation seekers are unequivocal on one point: they do not have a death wish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 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

“First Dana Matherson, now Beatrice the Bear. You got a death wish, Tex?”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen