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
"You would have to have a death wish to go out now," one Iranian journalist reflected.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
I don’t have some kind of death wish.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Perhaps going north would be the unexpected choice; no one went north in winter unless they had a death wish.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
