How to Use to death in a Sentence

to death

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  • The film reflects on faith, kinship and the passage from life to death.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
  • If the water gets too hot, well, the poor little froggy boils to death.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
  • So slow, in fact, that you might be tempted to beat the monsters to death rather than sneak and wait.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
  • By the book’s end, he has been sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of his wife.
    — Maya Singer, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The jury voted 7-5 to sentence him to death and a judge agreed.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • Just last week, Jonathan Sanon was beaten to death on the Common.
    — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Carlos Dominguez stabbed two people to death in Davis and nearly killed a third.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026
  • Lucas has been re-sentenced to death altogether four times over the decades.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Left with only her hands to fight off Seema, uh … Julia strangles her to death.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Their son, Nick Reiner, has been charged with stabbing his parents to death.
    — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Ramey was also convicted in the shootings and sentenced to death.
    — ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • He was eventually put to death by lethal injection last year.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Hines stole $100 in cash from her, stabbed her to death and then fled in her car, according to court records.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Simply to give us the gruesome scene of the kid convulsing to death while leaking blood from his eyes, nose, and mouth.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
  • One teacher was grappling with John for the weapon when the father of two students came in and shot him to death.
    — Martha Bellisle, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • One gunman was wounded and arrested, while the other was shot to death by police.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Two members of the pro-Assad groups were sentenced to death and a third to 12 years in prison.
    — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Aegon even gets a good pouncing move on one of the soldiers, shanking him to death with a broken arrow.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Keith, who was found outside the home, had been shot to death, while the other three had also been stabbed prior to the fire.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
  • At 26, he had been convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • She is convicted of murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Clancy jumped out of a window after strangling the children to death and was paralyzed in the fall.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Clancy jumped out a window after strangling the children to death and was paralyzed in the fall.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Four undergrads were stabbed to death in a home invasion attack at an off-campus rental home just steps from the edge of school grounds.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Salazar, 19, was found strangled to death in her apartment near campus on Thursday.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In 2017, he was convicted of murder, and sentenced to death row.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The two men were among 14 who were sentenced to death in the same case linked to the demonstrations earlier this year.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • The time in between Put the two passages beside each other – birth to life, life to death – and a pattern emerges.
    — Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Two Assad loyalists were also sentenced — one to death and the other to life in prison.
    — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Two Assad loyalists were also sentenced -- one to death and the other to life in prison.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026

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