How to Use last/dying breath in a Sentence

last/dying breath

noun
  • In one of the videos, the bear asks the viewer to take their last breath.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Not the other that had played a night earlier to their last breath.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Shortly after her mother took her last breath, the thought crept in.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Nemesis uses her last breath to take the baddie out, saving the kid.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The same house where Tommy grew up and, awfully, took his last breath.
    — Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • Treyvon was almost three decades younger than was George Floyd taking his last breath.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Candle wax and tears dropped around the spot where Izaiah Carter took his last breath.
    — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2023
  • However, prophecies about cable news taking its last breath have not come true — yet.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Joseph would take his last breath approximately three hours later.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • But now the iconic gag (both literal and figurative) is on its last breath.
    — Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Those intrigued hang onto every update, from the moment they're caught until their very last breath.
    — Jeff Truesdell, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022
  • The initiative’s critics, meanwhile, expressed hope that the cityhood effort was on its last breath.
    — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 13 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The conversation is stickily sweet, only to be cut short by Elise taking her last breath.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Before his last breath, Ian is surrounded by both Jamie and Jenny, taking their hands in his.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The glass tube, we are told, supposedly contains the last breath of Thomas Edison, captured by Henry Ford.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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