decease

Example Sentences

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In the capillaries and veins, the blood pressure continues to decease but velocity increases.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Yet here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor, which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener’s decease.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

No, we don't mean Margaret Thatcher, though her decease prompted ruminations about her cinematic era and the effect it's had since.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2013

I advance personally, solely to you ... decease calls me forth.”

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2013

That night, I listened with care to his breathing as he slept; and I thought on final words, and that he did not believe he had a soul that would survive his decease.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson