dies

Example Sentences

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"There's a huge investment in raising that chick, and that investment is made by both of the parents. So when one of them is out following fishing vessels, if one of those parents is injured or dies, the chick back on the island will also die, because the one parent isn't enough to keep up feeding this one chick, and an investment that's taken them two years to lay an egg is completely lost."

From BBC

“A tree in the forest ecosystem may have two or three hundred years of incredibly important vital life after it dies.”

From Los Angeles Times

But Antony is manipulating the truth for his own ends, and at the end of the play—after Brutus has been defeated and dies by suicide—Antony calls him “the noblest Roman of them all,” who acted not out of envy like the other assassins but for “common good to all.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Driven by fears over the more liberal direction they might want the companies to take after his death, the media mogul tried to change the terms of a trust that gave his four oldest children equal control when he dies.

From BBC

Consider putting your emergency contact list on paper in the event your phone stops working or the battery dies and you can’t check the contacts there.

From Los Angeles Times