at death's door
Example Sentences
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The movies have ostensibly been at death’s door at least since the shift to sync sound, which isn’t to undersell the industry’s business woes.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2023
They want to let patients like Zurawski obtain lifesaving care before they are actually at death’s door.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2023
There was something different happening here: the ex-con at death’s door coming clean with his regrets.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2021
Premature grief is the specter hovering over war-torn Yemen’s famine cases — malnourished children at death’s door — in Skye Fitzgerald’s latest dispatch from the Middle East, “Hunger Ward.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2021
It troubled Leah that people thought our household deficient, not because our mother was parked at death’s door, but because we lacked a bákala mpandi-—a strong man—to oversee us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
