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
In the Northwest, winter hiking can feel like an exercise in misery at best and a possible death wish at worst, but not in Arizona.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
“Two Deckers riding an elevator on their End Day is either a death wish or the start to a bad joke.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
