death rattle
Example Sentences
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"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
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
Our basement apartment had orange and yellow walls and a single window-mounted air-conditioner with a permanent death rattle.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
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
