dies
Example Sentences
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Her phone flashlight dies, but thankfully the storm sounds like it’s winding down.
From Literature
Disappointment rims her eyes and a piece of my heart dies a little.
From Literature
In this novel an elderly man dies alone in Florida in 1994 of a heart attack, leaving behind half a million dollars in his bank account, a “dozen fine suits and three pairs of expensive running shoes.”
This means the queens live that long too - because as soon as she dies, the colony collapses and any surviving workers will look for another nest.
From BBC
It is unclear how quickly ship traffic through the Persian Gulf will return to normal after fighting dies down, and big producers across the region have shut some oil and gas fields because they can’t send shipments abroad.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
