How to Use last/dying breath in a Sentence
last/dying breath
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In one of the videos, the bear asks the viewer to take their last breath.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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Not the other that had played a night earlier to their last breath.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
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Candle wax and tears dropped around the spot where Izaiah Carter took his last breath.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2023
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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
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The same house where Tommy grew up and, awfully, took his last breath.
—Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
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Shortly after her mother took her last breath, the thought crept in.
—Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
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Treyvon was almost three decades younger than was George Floyd taking his last breath.
—Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 8 Mar. 2022
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There’s often an audible sigh as the last breath comes out.
—Jeremy N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tragically, many have taken their last breath on the floor.
—NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
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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
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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 | Minabinett@al.com, al, 19 Jan. 2022
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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
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The glass tube, we are told, supposedly contains the last breath of Thomas Edison, captured by Henry Ford.
—Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
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But now the iconic gag (both literal and figurative) is on its last breath.
—Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
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The initiative’s critics, meanwhile, expressed hope that the cityhood effort was on its last breath.
—Greg Bluestein, ajc, 13 Jan. 2022
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However, prophecies about cable news taking its last breath have not come true — yet.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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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
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One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 May 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As dawn broke over the Mississippi, Barbara Kendhammer — wife, mother, grandmother — took her last breath.
—CBS News, 29 Jan. 2022
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