How to Use die of in a Sentence

die of

phrasal verb

• The child was the first person to die of measles in the U.S. in a decade.
  — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
• 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
• They got caught in a cyclone; Davis almost died of hookworm.
  — Marta Zaraska, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
• 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
• The playlist contains a hodgepodge of content, including behind-the-scenes clips from the photo shoot and a dedication to Michael K. Williams, who died of a drug overdose in 2021.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2025