How to Use die of in a Sentence

die of

phrasal verb
  • 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
  • Nichols died of his injuries three days after the stop.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
  • No one has died of measles in the last four years, according to the CDC report.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But Square died of cancer five months later, and Perez didn’t want to run the store … yet.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • But in 2004, his father died of a gunshot wound to the chest in Boise County.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 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
  • Her husband, who was in the Ukrainian army, died of cancer in 2020.
    Lili Rutai, The Dial, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Several have died of drug overdoses since the group was founded in the late 2000s.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Jerry Cantrell’s guitar weeps on the track for Layne Staley, who died of an overdose at 34.
    Devan Díaz, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Fourteen states saw more than ten per cent of their nursing-home population die of the virus in the year 2020 alone.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Abalone, aged 12 years, three months and three days, daughter of Olof Johnson of Greenleaf, died of typhoid fever.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Not when the sport’s most iconic driver had just died of the very injury Hinton had been warning about.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Cox wasn't charged with a crime in relation to the slaying, and has since died of natural causes.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Their family confirmed via a rep that Barnes died of suicide on Dec. 15.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 21 Dec. 2024

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