death wish
Example Sentences
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If Evy is virtually alone in a house where strange noises are occurring at all hours, what would possess her to put on noise-canceling headphones, other than a death wish?
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Carter found that such high-sensation seekers are unequivocal on one point: they do not have a death wish.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
"You would have to have a death wish to go out now," one Iranian journalist reflected.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
Some, like his biographer Ritz, saw it as the culmination of Gaye’s death wish and thought, “So that’s how he did it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
“Two Deckers on one bus? Do you have a death wish? Mateo, those odds are insane. That thing could topple over.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
