How to Use last/dying breath in a Sentence

last/dying breath

noun

• In one of the videos, the bear asks the viewer to take their last breath.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Not the other that had played a night earlier to their last breath.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
• Candle wax and tears dropped around the spot where Izaiah Carter took his last breath.
  — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2023
• Scripture says Jesus hung on the cross from noon to 3 p.m., drawing his last breath.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2024
• The same house where Tommy grew up and, awfully, took his last breath.
  — Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
• Shortly after her mother took her last breath, the thought crept in.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
• Treyvon was almost three decades younger than was George Floyd taking his last breath.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 8 Mar. 2022
• There’s often an audible sigh as the last breath comes out.
  — Jeremy N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022
• Even the barely audible rasp of the bow’s hair across a string can conjure the intimate shape of a last breath.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• Scripture says Jesus hung on the cross from noon to 3 p.m., before drawing his last breath.
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
• Roberta watched Leo take his last breath over FaceTime on the afternoon of Jan. 12.
  — Karin Brulliard and Adria Malcolm, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2022
• In his final line, a pitch slide down an octave, Vogler leaned back, closed his eyes and exhaled, evoking the Don’s last breath.
  — Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Tragically, many have taken their last breath on the floor.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• Her mother's close friend who was there when Laura was in labor was beside Liza when the 21-year-old student took her last breath.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• No matter what the score was, no matter what was going on, this team continued to fight to the last breath every single game from the start of the season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 19 Jan. 2022
• The very fabric of America was tearing, like the curtain in the Temple ripped asunder when Christ exhaled his last breath.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• The glass tube, we are told, supposedly contains the last breath of Thomas Edison, captured by Henry Ford.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• But now the iconic gag (both literal and figurative) is on its last breath.
  — Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• The initiative’s critics, meanwhile, expressed hope that the cityhood effort was on its last breath.
  — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 13 Jan. 2022
• However, prophecies about cable news taking its last breath have not come true — yet.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• His last breath, like almost every other moment of the previous twenty-six years of his life, was witnessed by no one.
  — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022
• Either way, with the last breath of spring training being drawn, new players were anxious to experience their first Wrigley Field opener as Cubs.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Two hundred eighty-seven homeless people took their last breath on the sidewalk, 24 died in alleys and 72 were found on the pavement, according to data from the county coroner.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• The engine sputters a last breath before falling silent, and there is a moment of unnerving quiet before … laughter?
  — Paula Aceves, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2021
• Months after the stallion Laoban drew his last breath, thoroughbred owner Jerry Jamgotchian made a series of seven-figure offers for a stake in the dead horse.
  — Tim Sullivan, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• The scene was originally scripted showing Leto dying with one last breath of vengeance before cutting to Paul and Lady Jessica inside the tent.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Ezekiel's final words before drifting off into a medicated slumber, like a dying man fighting to get out one last breath?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• His wife, four daughters, more than 16 of his grandchildren and other family members, gathered at his house after Uvaldo took his last breath.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2022
• As dawn broke over the Mississippi, Barbara Kendhammer — wife, mother, grandmother — took her last breath.
  — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024