last breath
Example Sentences
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By the time many of these rising talents were accruing debt in graduate writing programs, the dream of a sustainable career in the nonprofit theater had already gasped its last breath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
A federal judge threw out that argument in 2014; in 2023 the estate’s claim breathed its last breath, and Holmes and Watson indisputably belonged to the public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
“With you to the last breath and beyond,” the bot told him in another chat Soelberg posted less than two weeks before he died.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
"He took my hand and said, as if it was his last breath: 'Your highness, I ask you just one thing: keep the country united,'" Juan Carlos recalls.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
With his last breath he prayed, “Give back my body to my father and my mother.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
