at death's door
Example Sentences
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"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
The musical “Rock & Roll Man” starts with an attention-grabbing gambit: It is 1965, and J. Edgar Hoover is prosecuting the D.J. and promoter Alan Freed, then at death’s door.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 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
“I suppose you told him I’m at death’s door or something,” Franny said.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
