How to Use last/dying breath in a Sentence
last/dying breath
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In one of the videos, the bear asks the viewer to take their last breath.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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Not the other that had played a night earlier to their last breath.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
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Shortly after her mother took her last breath, the thought crept in.
—Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
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Nemesis uses her last breath to take the baddie out, saving the kid.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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The same house where Tommy grew up and, awfully, took his last breath.
—Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
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Treyvon was almost three decades younger than was George Floyd taking his last breath.
—Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2022
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Candle wax and tears dropped around the spot where Izaiah Carter took his last breath.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2023
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However, prophecies about cable news taking its last breath have not come true — yet.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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Joseph would take his last breath approximately three hours later.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2024
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Our family was there with him from the beginning of the fight to the finish, until his very last breath!
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Dec. 2024
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But now the iconic gag (both literal and figurative) is on its last breath.
—Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
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Even the barely audible rasp of the bow’s hair across a string can conjure the intimate shape of a last breath.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
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Those intrigued hang onto every update, from the moment they're caught until their very last breath.
—Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
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Whether the barely rising and falling ribcage represents restorative sleep or a dying breath is hard to say.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
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One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022
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The initiative’s critics, meanwhile, expressed hope that the cityhood effort was on its last breath.
—Greg Bluestein, ajc, 13 Jan. 2022
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His last breath, like almost every other moment of the previous twenty-six years of his life, was witnessed by no one.
—Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
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The conversation is stickily sweet, only to be cut short by Elise taking her last breath.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
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Inside a hallway on the second floor of the convention center, Gosnell would draw his last breath.
—Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2024
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In his final line, a pitch slide down an octave, Vogler leaned back, closed his eyes and exhaled, evoking the Don’s last breath.
—Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022
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Before his last breath, Ian is surrounded by both Jamie and Jenny, taking their hands in his.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
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No matter what the score was, no matter what was going on, this team continued to fight to the last breath every single game from the start of the season.
—Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 19 Jan. 2022
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The engine sputters a last breath before falling silent, and there is a moment of unnerving quiet before … laughter?
—Paula Aceves, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2021
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Her mother's close friend who was there when Laura was in labor was beside Liza when the 21-year-old student took her last breath.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
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Listen to this article Tiara Parker once clung to her cousin, who took her last breath in Pulse nightclub’s bathroom stall.
—Lauren Brensel, Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2024
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The very fabric of America was tearing, like the curtain in the Temple ripped asunder when Christ exhaled his last breath.
—Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
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The glass tube, we are told, supposedly contains the last breath of Thomas Edison, captured by Henry Ford.
—Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
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His wife, four daughters, more than 16 of his grandchildren and other family members, gathered at his house after Uvaldo took his last breath.
—Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2022
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Either way, with the last breath of spring training being drawn, new players were anxious to experience their first Wrigley Field opener as Cubs.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
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Two hundred eighty-seven homeless people took their last breath on the sidewalk, 24 died in alleys and 72 were found on the pavement, according to data from the county coroner.
—New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
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