Examples of die of/from thirst in a Sentence
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After the child became ill and wet her mattress, Wenisch’s husband chained her outside their home as punishment and let the child die of thirst in the desert heat.
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Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
As fields go fallow and millions of livestock die of thirst, there is a staggering crisis of hunger in countries throughout the region.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
As California and the American West suffer through the worst dry spell in a millennium and municipalities are ordering residents to let their grass die of thirst or rip it out altogether, a lawn evangelist like Baird seems as heretical a sight in Los Angeles as an Angels hat at Dodger Stadium.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
Federal prosecutors had accused the woman, from Lohne in Lower Saxony, of standing by in Iraq as her then-husband chained the young Yazidi girl in a courtyard and left her to die of thirst.
—NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
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Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
As fields go fallow and millions of livestock die of thirst, there is a staggering crisis of hunger in countries throughout the region.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
As California and the American West suffer through the worst dry spell in a millennium and municipalities are ordering residents to let their grass die of thirst or rip it out altogether, a lawn evangelist like Baird seems as heretical a sight in Los Angeles as an Angels hat at Dodger Stadium.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
Federal prosecutors had accused the woman, from Lohne in Lower Saxony, of standing by in Iraq as her then-husband chained the young Yazidi girl in a courtyard and left her to die of thirst.
—NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
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“Die of/from thirst.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die%20of%2Ffrom%20thirst. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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