Examples of death wish in a Sentence
Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.
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Their argument was that the call of the void is not in fact a death wish.
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Philip Maymin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
Should the guy who spends his spare time dodging bullets really be lecturing him on death wishes?
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
The idea that anyone not afflicted by a death wish might initiate a high-speed accident with a thirty-eight-ton tractor-trailer seemed ludicrous.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
An outsider romance peppered with gallows humor and bubbling over with giddy optimism, Harold and Maude is a life-affirming, weirdly wonderful film about a rich kid with a death wish and his love affair with an exuberant 79-year-old woman.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
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Philip Maymin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
Should the guy who spends his spare time dodging bullets really be lecturing him on death wishes?
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
The idea that anyone not afflicted by a death wish might initiate a high-speed accident with a thirty-eight-ton tractor-trailer seemed ludicrous.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
An outsider romance peppered with gallows humor and bubbling over with giddy optimism, Harold and Maude is a life-affirming, weirdly wonderful film about a rich kid with a death wish and his love affair with an exuberant 79-year-old woman.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
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“Death wish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20wish. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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