death rattle

Example Sentences

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“It’s hard not to see this as, like, the final death rattle of an era.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

"At the end there can be a death rattle - a sound of hard breathing that can be frightening for people in the room," she says.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

"This is the death rattle of a movement that just cannot adapt to a changing world and to a community that is saying, 'We're not hiding in the shadows anymore.'"

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2023

What’s come since has been the death rattle, and remixes of that death rattle.”

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

Boseman let out a mortifying gasp as they departed, which Cora took as his death rattle.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead