dying to
Example Sentences
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“It’s a compression of life, without transition, so you go from fighting to love, to forgetting, to dying, to rebirth,” Chamblas said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Van Der Beek communicates an unmistakable feeling that there is a good person somewhere inside his character, dying to break free of the tortured fate his monstrous doppelganger has created for him.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026
"I got to see him do something I've been dying to see him do that I know he can do but hadn't had the director to help him," the 58-year-old actor said.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
“I say the things that they are dying to hear from their parents,” Ginette says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
Akira was dying to know, but she didn’t want to press Sue, especially now.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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