death rattle

Example Sentences

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"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

The byproduct of Haiti’s institutional and security pandemonium is the death rattle of an economy that was already supine following years of misrule compounded by the pandemic.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022

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

Milking our collective cultural memory — while demonstrating a perverse selective memory of his own — constitutes stratospheric cynicism, or perhaps, a professional death rattle.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2017

Boseman let out a mortifying gasp as they departed, which Cora took as his death rattle.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead