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
As Hakes writes late in the novel, “Hula is written within the swirls of our feet. It’s our umbilical cord, our pulse. Our battle cry, our death rattle, our moment of conception.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
She will not have abandoned us, she would never leave her people, he was telling himself, when he heard the prince’s death rattle coming from the queen’s apartments.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
