die away
Example Sentences
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There’s a Vietnamese superstition: If you die away from home, your soul will become restless and won’t leave for the afterlife.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023
Shouts of approval for Saldaña’s emotional rendition of “México Lindo y Querido,” the classic ranchera that asks the living to take the protagonist back to Mexico if he should die away from his home country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023
Heinicke has graduated, passed the stage of charming fluke and journeyman legend, and the quaint stories about how he was living on his sister’s couch will die away now, because he is a talent.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021
But as preparations thrummed up through the gears in Moscow on Wednesday there was a familiar sense of clarity, of that background hum beginning to die away.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2018
When the afternoon began to die away behind the Park, Mrs. Brill and Ellen came to give them their supper and to bath the Twins.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
