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last breath

NOUN

dying moment

Synonyms

WEAK

death rattle death song death throes dying breath final twitch final words last gasp last hurrah last legs last words swan song

Example Sentences

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She's been there at someone's last breath multiple times.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

"People have come back to tell me that he had the gentlest soul, he's hard-working - and he was very hard-working right until his last breath."

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

“With you to the last breath and beyond,” the bot told him in another chat Soelberg posted less than two weeks before he died.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

I’ve held someone in my arms as they take their last breath, and my very best friend in the world, we were two of her caregivers for the last three months of her life.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

He had fought it to the last breath.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston