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Example sentences for "dying"

Lexicographically close words:
dyeth; dyett; dyewood; dyewoods; dygnyte; dyked; dykes; dylygence; dynamic; dynamical
  1. There are corpses in it and tombstones, and girls dying of tuberculosis, obscured beyond recognition in a mush of verbiage.

  2. It was not conceivable that Catherine, by merely dying in the fifteenth chapter, should pass out of the tale.

  3. She must have had some horror of dying in that room of death overhead; for, at noon, when the last pains seized her, she refused to be taken back to it.

  4. He was resigned to anything, even if he did confess: "Dying would not be in itself so bad, but first I should like to be able to conduct Tristan!

  5. Having lived through a lively young manhood and endured the bitter experience of two world wars Richard Strauss in the end performed the miracle of actually dying of old age!

  6. They woke up too soon, the creatures,--and the flowers look as if they were dying of consumption.

  7. I call it more elaborate, only because the workmanship as to form is much more: The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the whole world dies With the dying sun.

  8. Astraea was like a person who was dying from the heart; and with all the fortitude I could bring to my help, I felt it no easy task to lift myself out of the dismal depression which occasionally seized upon me.

  9. Caleb Jennings tremblingly summoned the house-servant and the landlady, and was still confusedly pondering the broken sentences uttered by the dying man, when Mr. Sowerby hurriedly arrived.

  10. They would have it that I was in a dying state, and that my only salvation lay in sending off a messenger with a kid and a bag of rupees to the faquir.

  11. For three years after this terrible defeat Washington was busy defending the Virginia frontier, and in 1758 he went to the final conquest of Fort Duquesne with the dying but victorious Forbes.

  12. Sometimes the stillness of the air was relieved by a soft sighing wind, which rustled the dying foliage as it swept by.

  13. He had grown dull and dreamy, and instead of going out as usual with the young hunters, he would lie for hours dozing before the dying embers of the fire.

  14. The herd, abandoning their dying companion, dashed frantically to the shore; and the young hunters, elated by their success, suffered them to make good their landing without further molestation.

  15. In my younger days I thought it not much to sit up late for my pleasure; shall I now think much of sitting up now and then to watch by a dying bed?

  16. I was soon attacked with the same fever, and saw myself, as I thought, dying the second time; my danger was the same, but my views were changed.

  17. My poor mother-in-law sent for a good clergyman, who pointed out the danger of dying in that hard and unconverted state, so forcibly, that I shuddered to find on what a dreadful precipice I stood.

  18. Believe my dying words--ALL IS FOR THE BEST.

  19. He now kicked so violently against the door that it burst open, when the first sight he saw was his daughter falling to the ground in a fit, and Mr. Squeeze dying by a shot from a pistol which was dropping out of his hand.

  20. We are very apt to talk most of dying when we are least fit for it," said Worthy.

  21. A hundred sermons about death, sir, don't speak so home, and cut so deep, as the sight of one dying sinner.

  22. O that the guardians of all other castles would hear me with my dying breath repeat my master's admonition, that all attacks from without will not destroy unless there is some confederate within.

  23. In his frightful countenance, was displayed the dreadful picture of sin and death, for he struggled at once under the guilt of intoxication, and the pangs of a dying man.

  24. I prayed to know what it was my duty to do between my dying parents and my helpless child.

  25. Betty," added the dying woman, "do you really think that I am going to a place of rest and joy eternal?

  26. In the last of all he found the paragraph he sought, and it stared up at him as if with Rainer's dying eyes.

  27. The twilight trembled as the yellow rays struck into its depths, and deepened, dying into purple shadows.

  28. This phrasal power is illustrated when she says of Faxon that he "had a healthy face, but dying hands," and of Lavington that "his pinched smile was screwed to his blank face like a gaslight to a whitewashed wall.

  29. Crawling back into his Morris chair with every bone in his body aching like a magnetized wire-skeleton charged with pain, Stanton collapsed again into his pillows and sat staring--staring into the dying fire.

  30. If I had, I shouldn't have forgotten it to my dying day.

  31. Now, think you not this man was dying a great deal better than he deserved?

  32. The dying manʼs great heavy eyelids slowly and feebly quivered, and a long deep sigh arose, but there was not strength to fetch it.

  33. His spirit had been dying daily, going to the devil daily, every day for months; and he found no place for repentance.

  34. Moreover, the day had been very warm for the beginning of October—the dying glance of Summer, in the year 1860, at her hitherto foregone and forgotten England.

  35. Of all the good and evil things which so had branded him distinct, two yet dwelled in his feeble heart, only two still showed their presence in his dying eyes.

  36. Also "the mortality returns were not kept in such a manner as to lead to accuracy, for while all deaths of non-residents were excluded, the deaths of residents dying outside the district in similar institutions were not included.

  37. The number of persons dying from preventable disease had been steadily increasing.

  38. The whole brood of you is like a dying candle.

  39. The fact is that you'll remember me till your dying day.

  40. Sure enough there was a dying fire on a bare spot among the trees and all about it were the marks where men had trodden the grass with their heavy boots.

  41. Inevitably, then, by this dying out of the especially unegoistic, there is prevented that desirable mitigation of egoism in the average nature which would else have taken place.

  42. This primitive form of ethical doctrine, changed only by the gradual dying out of multitudinous minor supernatural agents and accompanying development of one universal supernatural agent, survives in great strength down to our own day.

  43. I was on my way now to see, in Tai-o-hae, a man who was giving his life to bring the white man's religion to the few dying natives who remained.

  44. This, though the Indians were dying of starvation by hundreds of thousands in the merciless siege of Mexico City.

  45. He remembers the hours when he lay bound to that man who was dying, and the dying man sucked his blood from him.

  46. So in the dance my Marquesan neighbors returned to the old ways and expressed emotions dying under the rule of an alien people.

  47. France had begun to make good her promise to expand her trade in Oceania, and the isolation of the dying Marquesans and empty valleys was ended.

  48. Here, three centuries ago, they were discovered by the peoples of the great world, and, rudely encountering a civilization they did not build, they are dying here.

  49. I once heard a man dying of hydrophobia make such sounds, half animal, half human.

  50. And they are dying for lack of expression, nationally and individually.

  51. But the Hana-uaua people, too, were dying now.

  52. One who has not seen a dying race cannot conceive of the prostration of spirit in which these people are perishing.

  53. Dwelling alone here with his dying charges, the good priest could not but feel a common bond with any white man, whoever he might be.

  54. If a father relates to his son that such and such a person is dying of hunger, and if the child goes and carries the purse of his father to this unfortunate being, this is a simple action.

  55. Perhaps the dying Sarah may not deter a single debauchee, nor all the pictures of avenged seduction stop the evil; yet unguarded innocence has been shown the snares of the corrupter, and taught to distrust his oaths.

  56. Poetry appeared dying out, history drying up, till a truer spirit was breathed into the literary atmosphere by the criticism of Lessing, the philosophy of Kant, and the poetry of Klopstock.

  57. People were dying in the mosques and in the streets, and my father decided to send my mother and myself and some others of the harem to his brother's house in Damaskus.

  58. The chant was repeated, the words dying away into a long murmur.

  59. His doctor could not assist him much, and keenly did he feel, at that time, how awful it is to postpone thoughts of eternity to a dying hour.

  60. Me wish um could," said Jumbo, his teeth chattering in his head with fear as he listened to the dying groans of a poor ox, and heard the lions growling and roaring beside him.

  61. Revenge for the dying emperor was long in coming.

  62. But these are only the dreams of a dying man, the last rays of light of the life which is being extinguished.

  63. But before dying he writes to the princess:-- "I saw you for the first time eight years ago in a theatre, and since that time I have loved you with boundless passion.

  64. He assures the dying woman that: "Eternal rest means happiness.

  65. And thus his life had been spent; it had been nothing but a series of transgressions and hatreds, where the flames of desire, in dying out, had left nothing but cold ashes in his soul.

  66. He does not love his fellow-men, and cannot feel the intense happiness of devoting himself to his fellow-creatures and even dying for them.

  67. The poor dying man seems to hear a voice from this better world, where he once lived and from which he had been sent forever.

  68. We are dying from work, we are tormented by hunger and by cold, we are always in the mire, always in the wrong!

  69. A death-like silence has invaded the presbytery, and this silence is especially dreadful near the paralyzed wife, who is dying without speaking.

  70. For thirty years this task was carried on, both father and son dying without gaining any practical result, other than the discovery of an ancient scabbard in a rift.

  71. The curative properties of Milford Springs, New Hampshire, were revealed in the dream of a dying boy.

  72. He died in Arisaig, and in his dying blessed with the seven blessings one well upon this island, but which of all that run there I never learned.

  73. The dreary note, prolonged and dying slowly, seemed to roll in waves far out on shoreless seas of space, and Mellish, agitated, beat again upon the ponderous brass.

  74. Like the Phaedra of Racine, and herein so nobly unlike the Phaedra of Euripides, she is capable of the deepest and bitterest penitence,--incapable of dying with a hideous and homicidal falsehood on her long polluted lips.

  75. If under the latter head we had to class such passages only as the dying speech of Buckingham and the christening speech of Cranmer, it might after all be almost impossible to resist the internal evidence of Fletcher's handiwork.

  76. In all the flat interminable morass of its tedious and tuneless verse I can find no blade or leaf of living poetic growth, no touch but one of nature or of pathos, where Arthur dying would fain send a last thought in search of his mother.

  77. They're dying like rats in their homes; bodies are washing around the streets and there's no relief in sight," Purviance said.

  78. We could hear the groans of dying men and the wails and shrieks of injured women and children.

  79. Then fell a strange and weird silence, and the echoes faded away like the voices of dying men, and all was still save the far-away barking of a coyote that answered the mysterious challenges of the night.

  80. MacDonald shook his great gray head in the dying firelight.

  81. And I--John Aldous, I could not fight his last wish as he lay dying before my eyes.

  82. At first it was supposed that only a limited portion of this enormous tract would be available for settlement, but this fear is dying out.

  83. A thousand miles away in the desert, in a lonely hut beleaguered by the blacks, lay the dying man with an instrument brought to his bedside.

  84. Now it may be said the past is forgotten, the taint is dying away, and Western Australia is awakening into life.

  85. Little Gustave was still on his father's knee, his night-shirt tucked up, his whole wretched misshapen body shivering, and displaying the scragginess of a slowly dying child.

  86. All five entered the goods shed, at twenty paces from the crowd which was still bustling and buzzing, without a soul in it expecting that there was a man dying so near by.

  87. Why not the young woman, the dear woman, whom they were taking home in a dying state?

  88. Deeply grieved that his entreaties should have been of no avail, the priest wished to show the dying man an example of that goodness of God which he repulsed.

  89. We'll each have a cup of milk, for I'm dying of thirst; then we'll go out and walk about.


  90. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatement; abridgment; alleviation; annihilation; bad; bane; brittle; capricious; changeable; choking; contraction; corruptible; curtains; death; decadence; decease; deciduous; declension; declination; decline; declining; decrement; deduction; deflation; degeneration; degradation; demise; departure; depravation; depreciation; depression; derogation; descent; deterioration; diminishing; diminution; dissolution; doom; dousing; downturn; drop; dwindling; dying; eager; ebb; end; ending; ephemeral; evanescent; exit; expiration; extinction; fading; failing; failure; fall; fickle; fleeting; flitting; flying; fragile; frail; fugacious; fugitive; going; grave; hopeless; hungry; impermanent; impetuous; impulsive; inconstant; insubstantial; involution; knell; lapse; lessening; loss; low; lowering; mitigation; momentary; moribund; mortal; mutable; parting; passing; perishable; quietus; receding; reduction; regression; relaxation; release; rest; retiring; retreating; retrogression; reward; sagging; shrinking; simplicity; sinking; sleep; slipping; slump; subtraction; temporal; temporary; terminal; transient; transitive; transitory; unstable; volatile; wane; waning; weakening


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dying hour; dying mother; dying person; dying woman