death rattle
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"Florence started to make some really harsh grunting sounds, it sounded like a death rattle coming from her chest up into her mouth," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
“It’s hard not to see this as, like, the final death rattle of an era.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 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
Our basement apartment had orange and yellow walls and a single window-mounted air-conditioner with a permanent death rattle.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2021
But there was a mouth...a gaping, shapeless hole, sucking the air with the sound of a death rattle.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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