deathwatch

Example Sentences

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An attention-grabbing quote, but it's merely punching up an ancient opinion because the deathwatch for "conventional TV," i.e. cable and broadcast, has been going on for decades.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023

For a newspaper editor heading into the new news century, deathwatch beetles were everywhere, but so was possibility.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2019

Ed and Paula had seen reporters camped out on the Sotloffs’ lawn for the deathwatch.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2015

Fiction's most recent deathwatch began with David Shields' provocative 2010 book "Reality Hunger," in which he diagnosed the traditional novel as "predictable, tired, contrived and essentially purposeless."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2015

I sat down on the cot that was meant for my father’s wife, the cot where she must have spent many nights on both a vigil and a deathwatch.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat