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
An attack on him was a "death wish by the attacker" he said, and he thanked Congress for approving more money for the Secret Service.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
Waking a nest full of pixies is a death wish.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
