How to Use die of in a Sentence

die of

phrasal verb

• The child was the first person to die of measles in the U.S. in a decade.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
• Anyone who does not die in the raids will die of hunger and thirst.
  — Omar Shaban, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2023
• Wendt died of cardiac arrest on May 20 at the age of 76.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 June 2025
• Then, in 1935, at the age of fifty-three, Baruch Israel died of a heart attack.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• When White was 10, her brother's friend, who was 27, died of leukemia.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• The topic hits close to home for Richards, whose mom died of breast cancer in 2002.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2023
• Matthews died of her injuries at the scene, which the report says was in or near the roadway.
  — Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 26 June 2024
• Nichols died of his injuries three days after the stop.
  — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
• No one has died of measles in the last four years, according to the CDC report.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Square died of cancer five months later, and Perez didn’t want to run the store … yet.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
• But in 2004, his father died of a gunshot wound to the chest in Boise County.
  — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024
• Of the deaths, three were people under the age of 40 who died of a heart condition.
  — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2024
• Her husband, who was in the Ukrainian army, died of cancer in 2020.
  — Lili Rutai, The Dial, 7 Jan. 2025
• At least 524 people in Africa have died of mpox this year, according to the WHO.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 15 Aug. 2024
• The artist died of acute subdural hematoma, a form of brain bleeding, the statement said.
  — Mai Nishiyama, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• At least 199 people died of dengue fever during that time.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The next month, an 11-year-old White boy died of a lung condition at Children’s.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The boy was the second to die of gunshot wounds in Indianapolis in less than a month.
  — Cindi Andrews, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• The pedestrian, meanwhile, died of his injuries at the scene.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
• The magnetized tank struck the child, who died of blunt force trauma injuries.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 20 July 2025
• The teen died of four stab wounds to his torso, according to the autopsy.
  — Olivia Lloyd july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
• Don, Gail and Heather died of organ failure within a week.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 July 2025
• Black men in the U.S. are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as their white counterparts.
  — Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• An autopsy found that the 46-year-old died of hypothermia and blunt force injuries to the head.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 May 2025
• They got caught in a cyclone; Davis almost died of hookworm.
  — Marta Zaraska, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
• Later that year, her brother died of a drug overdose at age 26.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 9 July 2025
• Christian Dior died of a heart attack in Italy in October of 1957.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 23 June 2025
• Several have died of drug overdoses since the group was founded in the late 2000s.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• Medics say dozens of Gazans have died of malnutrition in recent days as hunger spreads.
  — USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
• Years later, in 2003, her father Mario died of lymphoma — and the next year, Linda was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
  — Greta Bjornson, People.com, 2 Aug. 2025