Examples of death wish in a Sentence
Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.
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Reduced to occasionally doing commercials for used cars, and spending most of his days drinking, despairing, and sporadically playing Russian roulette in a retirement home for actors, the curmudgeonly Montana has a death wish that only sheer luck has kept him from fulfilling.
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Is the speaker appreciating a peaceful winter scene or barely suppressing a death wish?
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Is this a death wish for someone with nothing better to do with his life?
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
A lot of anger and denial, and even a bit of a death wish, that all were there before Grace got there and now are roaring back.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025
Is the speaker appreciating a peaceful winter scene or barely suppressing a death wish?
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Is this a death wish for someone with nothing better to do with his life?
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
A lot of anger and denial, and even a bit of a death wish, that all were there before Grace got there and now are roaring back.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for death wish
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“Death wish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20wish. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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