death rattle

Example Sentences

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Some have been coughing up phlegm and breathing in a way he described as a “death rattle.”

From Seattle Times

He displays “death rattle” breathing, and his body has occasional violent spasms.

From Scientific American

People from science fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson to Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield suggest ways to reshape technology, the economy, the environment, the food supply, government and community in hopes that people can eventually look back at 2020 as a reawakening and not a death rattle.

From Seattle Times

I hear the imperial American myth in the throes of its own death rattle.

From Washington Post

The death rattle gets louder with every frivolous lawsuit that seeks to overturn the election, with every conspiracy theory that gains purchase, with every refusal to protect the vulnerable from the coronavirus unless corporations are protected first.

From Washington Post