die away
Example Sentences
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There’s a Vietnamese superstition: If you die away from home, your soul will become restless and won’t leave for the afterlife.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023
Shouts of approval for Saldaña’s emotional rendition of “México Lindo y Querido,” the classic ranchera that asks the living to take the protagonist back to Mexico if he should die away from his home country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023
Read more from the BBC's Joel Gunter, as he finds older residents with strong emotional ties and no desire to die away from home.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2022
And because they are freighted with their own history of making and use, they can function like aromas that briefly unlock troves of private narrative, only to die away.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
I see the lights scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly; they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
