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On an afternoon in late March, the students in Nancy Ewing’s Atlanta home are working on an art form that nearly died out hundreds of years ago.—Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 5 Apr. 2026 As an annual, annual ryegrass dies out at the end of each growing season and does not regrow.—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 4 Apr. 2026 Some groups died out, but others eventually gave rise to modern animal groups such as chordates, crustaceans and mollusks.—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026 Locking in demand To be sure, wind and solar power remains hobbled by weather conditions, with capacity weaker when the sun goes down or the wind dies out.—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for die out