How to Use die of in a Sentence

die of

phrasal verb

• His mother died of breast cancer shortly after his birth in 1963.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
• The victim, who ultimately died of a single gunshot wound, was reportedly dropped off at a local hospital as officers arrived on the scene.
  — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2024
• According to the district attorney’s office, an autopsy determined the infant died of suffocation, adding that there were marks on her neck and ligature marks that showed she had been bound.
  — Nicole Acosta, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• Teen-agers need privacy, but when their methods for hiding far outstrip their parents’ capacity to monitor their activity, children can die of that privacy.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Anyone who does not die in the raids will die of hunger and thirst.
  — Omar Shaban, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2023
• Then, in 1935, at the age of fifty-three, Baruch Israel died of a heart attack.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• When White was 10, her brother's friend, who was 27, died of leukemia.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• The topic hits close to home for Richards, whose mom died of breast cancer in 2002.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 23 Aug. 2023
• Matthews died of her injuries at the scene, which the report says was in or near the roadway.
  — Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 26 June 2024
• No one has died of measles in the last four years, according to the CDC report.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Of the deaths, three were people under the age of 40 who died of a heart condition.
  — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2024
• At least 524 people in Africa have died of mpox this year, according to the WHO.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 15 Aug. 2024
• The artist died of acute subdural hematoma, a form of brain bleeding, the statement said.
  — Mai Nishiyama, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• At least 199 people died of dengue fever during that time.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The next month, an 11-year-old White boy died of a lung condition at Children’s.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• The boy was the second to die of gunshot wounds in Indianapolis in less than a month.
  — Cindi Andrews, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• The pedestrian, meanwhile, died of his injuries at the scene.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
• Black men in the U.S. are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as their white counterparts.
  — Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Randolph was in hospice care at the time of her death and died of natural causes, her son, Randy, told TMZ.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
• But after Jay died of cancer, Streck began to explore a new call: The priesthood.
  — Lisa Ling, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
• Only Rose used the makeshift raft, with Jack dying of hypothermia.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
• Outside the day care in New York City's Bronx neighborhood where a 1-year-old boy died of a fentanyl overdose.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Thurman was taken to an area hospital but died of his wounds.
  — Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 3 Dec. 2023
• Those fish died of gas bubble disease, which happens when the pressure changes while passing through a tunnel at the base of a dam.
  — Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 5 Apr. 2024
• Megan’s mother, Sandra, died of the coronavirus three years ago.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• One of the people aboard the bus died of an apparent gunshot wound, Schierbaum disclosed.
  — CBS News, 11 June 2024
• Edwin Stanton suffered from asthma and would soon die of it.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Both her parents died of lung disease from the mines, a common occurrence.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
• Most compelling is the case of Amy Robsart, the wife of the Earl of Leicester who mysteriously died of a broken neck.
  — Bree Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• My grandfather almost died of a black widow bite many years ago.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024