death rattle
Example Sentences
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“It’s hard not to see this as, like, the final death rattle of an era.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
"At the end there can be a death rattle - a sound of hard breathing that can be frightening for people in the room," she says.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
"This is the death rattle of a movement that just cannot adapt to a changing world and to a community that is saying, 'We're not hiding in the shadows anymore.'"
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2023
DVRs have since become commonplace, and the death rattle has only grown louder as the traditional television market has been disrupted several times over by the internet, streaming services and cord-cutters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2019
But there was a mouth...a gaping, shapeless hole, sucking the air with the sound of a death rattle.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
