drop dead

Example Sentences

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Brooker adds: "I'll find out when it stops if I drop dead or people stop watching."

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

“That’s what I’m working towards, and if I drop dead at the end of it, I’ll die a happy man.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

If Elon Musk were to drop dead tomorrow, the damage to Tesla’s share price would be unfathomable, because companies and also dumb crypto tokens get much more valuable when Musk breathes on them.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2024

Physicians identified this phenomenon in the aftermath of World War II, when they observed skeletal concentration-camp survivors and longtime prisoners of war eat high-caloric foods and then drop dead of cardiac failure.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2024

“What kind of world is it, Miss Louise, where princesses are taken from right under our noses and queens drop dead and we cannot even take comfort in soup?”

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo