dying breath
Example Sentences
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Your only wish was to be at home surrounded by your family when you took your dying breath.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
“This was the love of my life,” she said, “and I had promised him that I would make sure, until my dying breath, that I was going to do what I could to pursue justice.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022
A museum claims to own Thomas Edison's dying breath.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2022
“I’ll defend my state to the dying breath, and I will always do that and they know that.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2022
There was his handwriting, with the last letter trailing off...like a dying breath.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
