How to Use die-off in a Sentence

die-off

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• The key reason for the die-off was a lack of food, Schulman-Janiger said.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• Between April and June of that year, there was a large-scale die-off of wild birds there, again traced to H5N1.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 May 2024
• Those trees had suffered in the die-off before the sewage upgrade.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
• So maybe less daunting and more just gross, are these mass fish die-offs that are smelling up beaches.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
• The investigation, much like the mass die-off of the bees, was unique, Cooper said.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• But that die-off was unfolding hundreds of miles south of here.
  — Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
• All of this can add up to a mass die-off, driven by the changes in how energy moves through ecosystems.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023
• This summer’s die-off happened to both wild elkhorn and to corals bred to be more heat-tolerant.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• Fewer deer after a die-off means more food for those that remain.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
• Marine heat waves caused mass coral bleaching – a sign of stress – and die-offs in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean in 2023.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024
• The medicine was banned once Indian officials learned of its role in the vulture die-off, but by then, the damage was already done.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 2 Aug. 2024
• To set conditions for a kind of victory, Ukraine should prolong the great Russian die-off.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• What’s more, some die-offs are impossible to detect at all.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• Yellow spots, sudden die-off of isolated patches of the lawn ...
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 July 2023
• The die-off is not expected to have a lasting effect on the lake's fish populations.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2024
• Cows largely recover from H5N1, unlike the mass die-offs seen in other species.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 May 2024
• Western red cedar, western hemlock and big leaf maple have all seen die-offs and growth declines in recent years tied to climate.
  — Nathan Gilles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• But the recent die-off of salmon fry was unintentional.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• The dewatering of the river and the mass fish die-off sparked an outpouring of concern in the community.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
• Florida has been seeing sea surface records at hot tub settings, leading to massive die-off of coral in the Keys.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• On the state’s east coast, decades of sewage and fertilizer pollution had led to a mass die-off of seagrass, which the animals rely on for food.
  — Jason Gulley Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Oregon incident comes on the heels of a mass Chinook salmon smolt die-off in Northern California.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• My installation is one of many aimed at helping to reverse a die-off that is happening not only in the Maldives, but across the globe.
  — Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024
• Bees in the wild have succumbed to a planet-wide die-off, taking almonds, avocados and honey down with them.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• The pollution blew onto the ridge, causing a massive vegetation die-off and leading to a decades-long cleanup.
  — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• This toxin has been linked to mass fish die-offs whenever golden algae blooms in a waterway.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2024
• Scientists have warned that the heat wave could trigger mass die-offs of coral, which could have profound implications for marine ecosystems in the area.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• Authorities are also studying whether a biotoxin or virus might be causing the die-off.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• This further bolsters the theory that a weather event triggered their die-off, rather than mass starvation brought on by a prolonged drought, per the New York Times.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
• Marine-life experts say the toxic runoff can have both acute, immediate impacts on the fish and other aquatic life living in the bay, along with long-term impacts like widespread die-offs.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025

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die off

2 of 2 verb

• Since the shad died off a few years ago, the bass fishing hasn’t been the same.
  — Staff Report, Orange County Register, 27 May 2024
• Through tonight: Gusty breezes will die off through the evening and into the night.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• There’s a reason most of those types of point-and-shoots died off.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 11 May 2023
• As summer ends, the queens stop laying eggs and the colony starts to die off.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• That kind of died off in the 1930s or Forties in the States, but in Japan, that’s still going strong.
  — Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
• Once the first frost hits the adult midges will die off, ending the disease process for this year.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
• The next 24 hours are a lot like the last, although with some luck that wind will die off a bit over time.
  — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
• Much of the sea grass being restored will die off again.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• The cells can then die off early, which leads to anemia.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Nov. 2023
• But the membership began to decline in the 2010s as the old-timers died off.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• Winds die off a good deal with sunset, then wane further through the night.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• These strong gusts will then die off by Sunday evening.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2022
• Storms will be most likely from 1 p.m. through the evening hours and should die off later tonight.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 May 2022
• Winds die off a bit as temperatures fall to a range across the 40s for lows.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
• Since then, she’s watched the forests completely die off.
  — NBC News, 21 Sep. 2021
• Sometimes an organ gives up the ghost while the mind is spared and sometimes the mind starts to die off, while the body is fine.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
• If nests are too warm and larvae die off, that affects the entire colony.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• The result could be that humans starve and die off due to a lack of available resources.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• The cells then die off early, leaving a lack of healthy red blood cells, or anemia.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• With the advent of the New Deal and the social-welfare state, the machines began to die off, and the police were on their own.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The plants, insects, fungi, and mammals below the canopy would be forced to adapt at warp speed—or die off.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• Since then, the coronavirus has been shown to die off in the presence of UV rays with the same wavelength as sunlight.
  — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2021
• Her models show that without change, the colony will die off within 50 years.
  — Terry Spencer, ajc, 30 Mar. 2022
• Through tonight: Winds die off with the sunset while skies remain mostly clear.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Other species may not be able to outrun the rapid changes in their habitat and could simply die off.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
• When the water is warm from late spring though the early fall, the bite stays strong in the mornings but usually dies off around 10 a.m.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
• Fortunately, winds die off during the day, taking the edge off the chill.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• Once the army of white blood cells and their antibody foot soldiers have defeated the virus, most die off.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• Storms will tend to die off with sunset, leaving clearing skies overnight.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Those species could then die off due to a lack of repopulation.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025