How to Use die-off in a Sentence

die-off

1 of 2 noun

• The die-off spread eastward through the year.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
• What triggered the massive die-off?
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
• Fewer deer after a die-off means more food for those that remain.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
• But that die-off was unfolding hundreds of miles south of here.
  — Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
• Those trees had suffered in the die-off before the sewage upgrade.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
• That pressure may trigger a tipping point with mass tree die-offs.
  — Alexandra A Phillips, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
• Both entities believe drought and heat played a role in the die-off.
  — Kate Petersen, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
• In fact, Como Lake saw a fish die-off the same week last year.
  — Tyler Quattrin, Twin Cities, 10 June 2026
• So maybe less daunting and more just gross, are these mass fish die-offs that are smelling up beaches.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
• The key reason for the die-off was a lack of food, Schulman-Janiger said.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• As a coral expert, Riegl notes that even with the massive die-offs, corals remain.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
• This summer’s die-off happened to both wild elkhorn and to corals bred to be more heat-tolerant.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• All of this can add up to a mass die-off, driven by the changes in how energy moves through ecosystems.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
• Disease still unknown Scientists still do not know what caused the die-offs.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
• This means that, even if there is a large die-off rate, tick populations are still growing rapidly.
  — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 18 July 2026
• This particular die-off evidence stands out from others due to the rock in which it was found.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2025
• The department noted the recent death is not related to the prairie dog die-off.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 11 July 2025
• Researchers found little evidence that disease caused the die-off.
  — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 2 July 2026
• The investigation, much like the mass die-off of the bees, was unique, Cooper said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Luckily, this practice can still be done in the window that succeeds late fall die-off and precedes a heavy freeze.
  — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2025
• This toxin has been linked to mass fish die-offs whenever golden algae blooms in a waterway.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2024
• Western red cedar, western hemlock and big leaf maple have all seen die-offs and growth declines in recent years tied to climate.
  — Nathan Gilles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• The die-off is not expected to have a lasting effect on the lake's fish populations.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2024
• Authorities are also studying whether a biotoxin or virus might be causing the die-off.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The wetland has absorbed toxic runoff from a warehouse fire before, resulting in a fish die-off.
  — Mack Baysinger follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
• In 2002, a huge salmon die-off, caused in part by the Iron Gate Dam, helped their quest.
  — The Editors, Outside, 15 Dec. 2025
• As the die-off continued, more of the ecosystem was affected, the fish were affected.
  — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
• These die-offs have caused detrimental imbalances within the habitats.
  — Lauren Liebhaber september 5, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
• Bees in the wild have succumbed to a planet-wide die-off, taking almonds, avocados and honey down with them.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Florida has been seeing sea surface records at hot tub settings, leading to massive die-off of coral in the Keys.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023

die off

2 of 2 verb

• There’s a reason most of those types of point-and-shoots died off.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 11 May 2023
• Since the shad died off a few years ago, the bass fishing hasn’t been the same.
  — Staff Report, Orange County Register, 27 May 2024
• But those people die off like dinosaurs.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• Winds die off a good deal with sunset, then wane further through the night.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• As summer ends, the queens stop laying eggs and the colony starts to die off.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• The oats will die off slowly after a series of hard freezes.
  — Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
• In winter, the patches die off and leave ugly bare spots in the lawn.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
• Once the first frost hits the adult midges will die off, ending the disease process for this year.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
• Solitary wasp colonies last only one year and die off each winter.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 5 Mar. 2026
• If nests are too warm and larvae die off, that affects the entire colony.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• This means after the plant flowers, the mother plant dies off.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
• Many have died off, however, leaving three of us who are very close.
  — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 7 June 2026
• Storms will tend to die off with sunset, leaving clearing skies overnight.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Midges will die off with the first hard frost, according to the wildlife agency.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
• The cells then die off early, leaving a lack of healthy red blood cells, or anemia.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• Birds are dying off — or they're slaughtered — by the thousands.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
• Most cosmos are annuals that die off when the weather gets chilly in the fall.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2026
• Those species could then die off due to a lack of repopulation.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• Slowly other players die off, and by the end one wins a whole bunch of money.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2024
• The plants die off each fall and regrow early the following spring from the bulb.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Both of these plants are winter annuals, so will die off on their own by summer.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2022
• By the end of summer, Evans estimates two-thirds will die off.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
• The result could be that humans starve and die off due to a lack of available resources.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• The next 24 hours are a lot like the last, although with some luck that wind will die off a bit over time.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
• Winds die off a bit as temperatures fall to a range across the 40s for lows.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Other species may not be able to outrun the rapid changes in their habitat and could simply die off.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• Her models show that without change, the colony will die off within 50 years.
  — Terry Spencer, ajc, 30 Mar. 2022
• Fish started dying off, birds stopped coming, and tourists abandoned the area.
  — Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
• Sometimes an organ gives up the ghost while the mind is spared and sometimes the mind starts to die off, while the body is fine.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
• The plants, insects, fungi, and mammals below the canopy would be forced to adapt at warp speed—or die off.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024