How to use "death" in a sentence

I feel strong enough to survive the fear of death, but not my body's need for water

For someone close to death I have done well

I did not see Captain Nemo for some days after the man's death

The same thing happened after the death of one of his men

'You will try to argue that I was responsible for Beckwith's condition - and for his eventual death

And I hope you see me in your imagination - when they put the rope around your neck and the crowd cries out for your death!'

Fantine, who did not have ten francs, but who was afraid that her daughter would freeze to death, went to the barber's shop

Gillenormand always told him that his father had been no good - that he was a poor soldier and a drunk who had abandoned him after his mother's death

Nothing had changed, and he decided that he had one last duty to perform: he must send Cosette a final message and tell her of his death

Both ways meant certain death

It was covered with blood and as pale as death

Marius lay for a long time between life and death in a state of fever, endlessly repeating the name of Cosette.

I look like death, she thinks.

'Her death was in all the newspapers

Her death was very sudden

I had never asked him about Rebecca's death.

Once, Beatrice came up to me and said, 'Why don't you sit down? You look like death.'

But if she learnt the truth about Rebecca's death, she would become Maxim's enemy too

They all said that Maxim had married his young, second wife within a year of Rebecca's death

Her death was a great shock

He'll be there to hold the young bride's arm when Max is sentenced to death.'

We have come about the death of the late Mrs de Winter

'Do you think Colonel Julyan knows the truth about Rebecca's death?' I asked Maxim as we were drinking our coffee.

She thought of herself as a tough, competent, levelheaded woman who was able to deal with anything life threw at her, and she was disturbed by her continuing inability to accept Danny's death.

At first, it had seemed terribly wrong that such a wonderful opportunity should come her way before she'd even had time to mourn her boy, as if the Fates were so shallow and insensitive as to think that they could balance the scales and offset Danny's death merely by presenting her with a chance at her dream job

Nevertheless, even as preoccupied with Magyck! As she was, she had adjusted to Danny's death only with great difficulty

It was a denial of Danny's death

Danny, of course, had been writing about something else, and the dark interpretation that could be drawn from those two words now, after his death, was just a macabre coincidence.

Shattered by the loss of his son, Michael had been irrationally vicious with Tina for months after the funeral, accusing her of being responsible for Danny's death

She believed in death and taxes, in the inevitability of slot-machine jackpots, in all-you-can-eat casino buffets for $5.95 per person, in the Lord God Almighty, in the truth of alien abductions and Big Foot, but she didn't believe in ghosts.

She wanted to kill the bastard, club him to death with his own shovel

It's not usually dangerous, except if he has a mouthful of food when he faints, because then he might choke to death.

Michael was the only person who had ever blamed her for Danny's death

Why would a stranger harbor such passionate feelings about Danny's death?

He blames you for Danny's death..

And I don't know of anyone but Michael who places any of the blame for Danny's death on me."

"And he blames you for Danny's death?"

"Is it? I thought I'd begun to get over Danny's death back in September

"So you think you're - what, sleepwalking? In your sleep, you're writing a rejection of Danny's death on his chalkboard?"

If your inability to accept Danny's death was a serious problem, you wouldn't push it down into your subconscious

After so much talk about death, she needed a glimpse of movement, action, life; and although the Strip sometimes was grubby in the flat glare of the desert sun, the boulevard was always, day or night, bustling and filled with life.

I mean, there isn't any doubt about the cause of death, no court trial hinging on a new coroner's report

All the talk about death and fear and madness and pain seemed to have taken place further back in the past than a mere few seconds ago

Later, with the stage show to produce and with poor Danny's death weighing heavily on her, she hadn't been in the mood for romance

Good, healthy lovemaking with a man who cared for her would have helped her recover much faster than she had done, for sex was the antithesis of death, a joyous celebration of life, a denial of the tomb's existence.

For a long, long time, they forgot that death existed, and they explored the delicious, silken surfaces of love, and it seemed to them, in those shining hours, that they would both live forever.

Elliot didn't tell the judge about the malicious prankster, for that seemed like an unnecessary complication; he still believed that once the fact of Danny's death was established by the exhumation, the quickest and surest way of dealing with the harassment was to hire a first-rate firm of private investigators to track down the perpetrator

"There's something about Danny's death..

They wanted to gain his cooperation without violence because they were reluctant to mark him; their intention was that his death should appear to be an accident or a suicide

She was curious about the story out of which that creature had stepped, for she had the peculiar feeling that, in some way, it would be similar to the story of Danny's death

Even if the government had established a secret police force, however, why was it so anxious to cover up the true facts of Danny's death? What were they trying to hide about the Sierra tragedy? What really had happened up in those mountains?

The story was set in the mid-nineteenth century, when a physician's perception of the thin line between life and death was often cloudy

But an image of crimson eyes, yellow skin - the leering face of death - flashed through her mind, and she kept moving.

Stupefied by the unexpected violence, by the loss of her house, and by her close brush with death, she had seemed to be in a trance; now she had snapped out of it

Then, he'd had the resiliency of youth and had been less burdened with respect for death than he was now

What reason does she have to doubt the official story of her son's death?

Does she have any proof that the official story of her son's death is false?

If the body were exhumed and reexamined by a top-notch pathologist, we'd almost certainly find proof that the cause of death wasn't what the authorities originally said it was."

"Was that where the death certificate was issued?"

"He's the one who had to designate it an accidental death

is finding out the truth about Danny's death

What had happened to Danny might still prove to be terrible, shattering, but she didn't think it would be as hard to accept as his "death" had been

So would the death certificate.

He planned a suicide for Stryker, an accidental death for the woman, and a heart attack for the woman's husband

If he was aware of his own shortcomings, the son of a bitch would be crushed to death under his collapsing ego.

He issued the death certificate," Alexander said.

If he's subjected to many more of these sudden temperature fluctuations, we'll never be certain they didn't contribute to his death

Theirs was an animal need for affection and companionship, a reaction to the death and destruction that had filled the day

All of his life, for reasons he had never been able to fully ascertain, he had been fascinated by death, intrigued by the form and nature and possibilities of it, enthralled by the study and theory of its meaning

He considered himself a messenger of death, a divinely appointed headsman

And this is a matter of life and death."

But if you agitate the wound, you might tear a bruised vessel, and then you'll bleed to death."

"Right now he's on the verge of starving to death because it's been so long since he's been able to keep any food in his stomach

For as long as he could remember, he had been fascinated with death, with the mechanics and the meaning of it, and he had longed to know what it was like on the other side - without, of course, wishing to commit himself to a one-way journey there

One day maybe he would be standing in a graveyard, before the tombstone of one of his victims, and the person he had killed would reach out to him from beyond and let him see, in some vivid clairvoyant fashion, exactly what death was like

Alexander watched death rushing up at him and knew his curiosity about the other side would shortly be satisfied.

I received a death threat by phone the night before the arbitration - I can't say for certain that it was from the writer; the voice was so deep that it might have been his mother - and the next morning the law firm handling the studio's case assured me that they had taken extra security measures for the meeting

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

My brother, your father, will have all my money and my house after my death, and you will have it all when he dies

I'm afraid that my money brings death with it."

'After my uncle's death, my father moved into the house

The murderers of John Openshaw did not get the pips, but, in the end, death came to them.

For weeks afterwards, Commissaire Charas investigated my brother's death

About his death, however, she would say nothing more than that she had killed him with the steam hammer

'Protect my boy from what? Don't you understand? I'm here so that Henri won't be the son of a woman who went to the guillotine for having murdered his father! Don't you understand that I would much prefer the guillotine to the living death of this asylum?'

For a year before his death, my husband had told me about some of his experiments

I hope there is no life after death because, if there is, I shall never forget the horror! Day and night, awake or asleep, I see it, and I know that I will see it forever.

'In your opinion, Dr Haydock, what was the cause of death?'

Hurst asked Dr Haydock, 'When, in your opinion, did the death happen?'

His cheerfulness rather upset me, but death means very little to a boy of sixteen.

When I had introduced Colonel Melchett to Miss Marple, he said, 'I want to talk to you about Colonel Protheroe's death

Also,' continued Griselda, 'you must forgive her for not caring about Colonel Protheroe's death

There is Lettice Protheroe, I suppose, because she probably gets money after her father's death

'It seems to fix the time of his death exactly,' I said

'I called to tell you how sorry I was that such a death has happened in the vicarage

'I understand that you visited Colonel Protheroe the night before his death.'

The inquest into Colonel Protheroe's death was held that same Saturday afternoon at the Blue Boar.

And because of the clock, it was thought that the time of death was 6.22.

'It's about Colonel Protheroe's death,' he had said to her

Because of the colonel's death the arrangement was cancelled.'

I have heard something about the death of poor Colonel Protheroe.

'There's a man in it - men in it! Half burnt to death! Trying to escape!'

This flaming death, this invisible sword of heat, was sweeping round quickly and steadily

It that death had swung round a full circle, it would have killed me

A few minutes earlier there had only been three things in my mind: the great size of the night and space and nature, my own weakness and unhappiness, and the near approach of death

I wanted to be there at the death.

In one night the valley had become a place of death

I expected only death.

I was walking the roads to clear my brain, and then - fire and death! All our work - everything destroyed

And it was death to breathe that smoke.

After that no group of men would stand against them, because this would mean almost certain death.

It was clear that he was near death

It was the start of the death of the human race.

The death of the man outside had taken away all his powers of thought

Whenever I slept, I dreamed either of the death of the curate or of wonderful dinners.

The death of that one at Weybridge was an accident

There, it seemed to me, I had the best chance of learning what the Martians and human beings were doing for death

But it was not the stillness of death - it was the stillness of expectation

It was an empty city waiting for death...

Across the pit, on its further edge, lay the great flying-machine which they had been testing in our heavier atmosphere when disease and death stopped them

I have seen his death certificate

'No, there was a great fire in Atlanta after her husband's death, and all her papers were destroyed.'

'And yet she had a death certificate

The man was too lazy to look after the interests of his own niece! I went to Limmeridge the next day and told him that no one should sign a marriage settlement like this - it gave the husband a large financial interest in the death of his wife! But Mr Fairlie did not want to listen

Dr Goodricke registered the death, and my mistress made all the arrangements for the funeral

The cause of death was heart disease.

I told him I was suspicious about the circumstances of Laura's death

'Sir Percival Glyde was involved in your daughter's death and has committed a crime against someone I love

For a long time I had felt nothing but hatred for Sir Percival, but I could not watch as he burnt to death in the vestry

The inquest concluded that Sir Percival's death was an accident

I have heard the news of a certain gentleman's death

Even so, your investigations were the cause of his death, and I thank you for that

Please get revenge for my death.

This was the proof I needed! The death certificate said that Lady Glyde had died on 25 July, and here was a letter from Sir Percival proving that she was still alive on 26 July!

She said, "The men who are against us have to choose between giving us freedom, or giving us death."

The punishment for traitors is death," says the Governor.