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Example sentences for "die"

Lexicographically close words:
didn; didna; didnae; didnt; didst; diebus; died; diede; diei; dielectric
  1. But it will take the best there is in you to do that sort of Work; and the Work will surely die as soon as you've accomplished it.

  2. But these are your problems and my problems and the problems of the men who have found the strength or the fear not to die rich.

  3. Yet he chose to stay in his native village at all hazards, and to die there.

  4. The passion for sailing back to Russia, "to die at home at last," lost but little of its original intensity.

  5. It seemed sometimes as though Adam would almost die from loneliness and jealousy.

  6. Why, then, belike we must sin, and so consequently die: Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

  7. If Gray Wolf refuses to release the prisoner, he will die tonight by his own hand; it is the will of the Great Spirit.

  8. I would rather die than complete the voyage and be sold as a beast of burden.

  9. He believed she would die and regretted not having bought her for fifteen guineas.

  10. Believing that she would die within a day or two, he hunted up Mr. Campbell and offered to sell her for twelve guineas.

  11. He claims to know too much when he says I shall die tonight unless the prisoner is released.

  12. I believe she will die during the voyage, confined in the foul air of her quarters and with such food as Sebastian provides.

  13. The thirst for the wilderness was on me; I could tolerate this place no more; I would go and die as I had lived, among the wild game and the savages.

  14. If it please God that my daughter should die this awful death, His will be done.

  15. We have,' said a deep voice, 'and we will die to save her.

  16. And as for thee, Incubu, thou shalt die in yet another fashion that I will not tell thee now.

  17. It is well,' he answered; 'then will I die with her.

  18. In the same way at night the last rays of the sinking sun rest for a while on the eastern altar before they die away into darkness.

  19. The high-veldt ox will die in the fat bush country, and so is it with me, Macumazahn.

  20. It is a fearful thing to do, my father, so few to strike at so many, yet will we do it or die in the doing.

  21. Having heard this, I felt that I could die with a light heart, and then everything became a blank.

  22. May we and ours die the death of dogs, and our bones be thrown to the jackals and the kites, if we break the oath!

  23. But there was a smell of dawn in the air, and we might not stay; better that all three of us should die upon the road than that we should linger while there was life in us.

  24. When she said this the other mem sahibs said: ‘We also will die with our husbands;’ and they all sat down, each by her husband.

  25. They discussed the white flag incident; but they remembered that Stoessel had said that he would die in the last ditch, so it did not seem probable.

  26. Even there people were not always safe, and when they were pressed to take refuge in Paris they peeped forth shuddering, and swore they would rather die in their own cellars than sally forth through a tempest of shell-fire.

  27. Some southern Arabs would die rather than accept food from a woman.

  28. Secondly, 'Twas requisite and necessary he should die punctually at that Time, for the Honour of Astrology, the Art professed both by him and his Father before him.

  29. Industry need not wish, as Poor Richard says, and he that lives upon Hope will die fasting.

  30. This I always allow, and am persuaded that if some of the many Enemies he provokes do not kill him sooner he will die in a madhouse.

  31. I am ashamed that I have gotten together such a poor orchestra, and I would rather die than disgrace myself before David.

  32. It is as hot as in Hell, and if you don't drink, you may die of a sunstroke.

  33. Is it before me, before a poor old man who must die soon, that you spread out your clothes upon the ground?

  34. I will die on the way now--I have nowhere else to go.

  35. Doctor," said the general, "I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.

  36. In case his daughter should die without issue, the estate of Mount Vernon, and other lands specified in his will, were to be enjoyed by her mother during her lifetime, and at her death to be inherited by his brother George.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "die" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    balustrade; banister; base; bones; cast; cease; colonnade; column; conk; craps; croak; dado; decease; decline; dematerialize; demise; depart; dice; die; disappear; dispel; disperse; dissipate; dissolve; drop; dwindle; ebb; elapse; end; erode; evaporate; exit; expire; fade; fail; fall; farm; fizzle; flag; flee; fly; form; founder; hide; intaglio; itch; ivories; lapse; last; matrix; melt; mint; miscarry; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; needle; negative; pack; part; pass; pedestal; pedicel; perish; pier; pilaster; pile; pillar; plaything; plinth; point; pole; post; pretty; punch; right; rocker; seal; shaft; sink; slide; slip; slump; staff; stalk; stall; stamp; stanchion; stand; standard; stem; stick; style; subside; succumb; teeth; toy; trunk; upright; vanish; wane; waste


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    die for; died about; died after; died away; died from; died soon; died suddenly; died unmarried; died young