How to Use deathbed in a Sentence

deathbed

noun
  • The Golf wagons had been on their deathbed for a while.
    Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
  • The young monk then held hands with, blessed and prayed with the old monk Father Patrick, who was on his deathbed.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Young men got up from their deathbed, newly strong and hale.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • On her deathbed, the legend goes, Pope's wife confessed to her crime.
    Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2019
  • That man’s wife was the woman that my father called on, on his deathbed.
    Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 19 June 2020
  • The carving is of her on her deathbed, and it is sunk up to her collarbones in his front lawn.
    Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • Now, imagine having to go through 30 years’ worth on your deathbed.
    Harry Guinness, Wired, 17 Mar. 2022
  • His grandfather, a World War II hero, was on his deathbed.
    Dallas News, 14 July 2019
  • Curley had to tell people, many of whom were on their deathbeds, that the treatment was not yet ready.
    Erika Hayasaki, Newsweek, 21 July 2015
  • And yet there isn’t one of us who would not drag himself off his deathbed in order to make the next season.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 19 Nov. 2020
  • And who has the heart to tell someone who appears to be on her deathbed that no one is ever safe in this life?
    Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Tolstoy’s wife made a strange statement on her deathbed.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • At the beginning of the episode, viewers are told that Jack’s dad, Stanley, is on his deathbed.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2017
  • On her deathbed, Reilly's mother asked her to keep spreading love through the notes.
    Ashley Vaughan, CNN, 22 Feb. 2020
  • An up-close image of the fiend, lurking above the cardinal's deathbed.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • That same year, Ray photographed Marcel Proust on his deathbed.
    Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Their father was on his deathbed and Keith came to say goodbye.
    Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2021
  • On his deathbed, his father kept a radio next to him at low volume.
    Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And, on my deathbed, the idea of drifting off into another realm is scary.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In 2010, hearing that her mother was on her deathbed, Marion called for the first time in years to try to make amends.
    USA Today, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Mozart writing on his deathbed in the late 18th century and Vaughan Williams in the first decade of the 20th century.
    Jen Banowetz, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • In June 1999, when Fred Trump was on his deathbed, the family convened around it to pay their respects.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 9 July 2020
  • At the time, Getler’s father was on his deathbed, but Getler decided to come anyway.
    Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • New York The words that Henry James said on his deathbed sound like the last testament of a religion’s founder.
    Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 15 June 2017
  • Even on his deathbed, Il-nam summoned Gi-hun to play another game.
    Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Two weeks ago, my friend was on his deathbed in Northern Washington, and his friends had come from all over the world to be beside him.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Also early on in the series, Cohen is seen on his deathbed a few months later.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The dream sequence culminates with a set piece 70 years in the future: Sandy and Michele live together and Romy is on her deathbed.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2022
  • There are stories of long-sober alcoholics taking a drink on their deathbeds.
    Andrea Jarrell, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Rhaenyra finally asks what her father said on his deathbed.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 1 July 2024

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