Examples of death wish in a Sentence
Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.
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Angelika balances between a death wish and a lust for life, trapped in a fragile family system.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
Is the speaker appreciating a peaceful winter scene or barely suppressing a death wish?
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Is this a death wish for someone with nothing better to do with his life?
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
A lot of anger and denial, and even a bit of a death wish, that all were there before Grace got there and now are roaring back.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
Is the speaker appreciating a peaceful winter scene or barely suppressing a death wish?
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Is this a death wish for someone with nothing better to do with his life?
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
A lot of anger and denial, and even a bit of a death wish, that all were there before Grace got there and now are roaring back.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for death wish
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“Death wish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20wish. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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