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How to use dying in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Dying means approaching death; about to die; moribund. Example: “The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!”

Examples of dying by meaning

adjectiveApproaching death; about to die; moribund.

  • The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
  • a dying fire
  • The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.

adjectiveDeclining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

  • In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
  • The dieselisation of this line has not been, as is sometimes the case, a means of reviving a dying branch, but an improving hand to a healthy service.1957 April, P. J. Norris, “The Watford-St. Albans Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 281

adjectivePertaining to death, or the moments before death.

  • His dying words were of his mother.
  • until my dying day
  • his dying bed

nounThe process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

  • “I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying,” he said.1995 November 26, Laura Mansnerus, quoting Timothy Leary, “At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In”, in The New York...

More sentences with dying

  • He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.From the entry bad
  • People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.From the entry breed
  • The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.From the entry ash
  • The key to his proposal is that he thinks this company is dying and needs radical change.From the entry key
  • A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment.From the entry entrapment
  • To put it in nonstatistical terms, a lot of people are dying.From the entry nonstatistical
  • I've been dying to get behind the wheel of this big boy.From the entry big boy
  • Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia activist, famously said "dying is not a crime".From the entry Kevorkian
  • Book lovers are a dying breed; now people just watch online videos.From the entry dying breed
  • I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.From the entry die
  • People are dying of starvation all over the world.From the entry world
  • The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.From the entry buck
  • The dying puppy was revived by a soft hand.From the entry revive
  • The Manx language has been revived after dying out, and is now taught in some schools on the Isle of Man.From the entry revive
  • By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.From the entry statistic
  • John decided to euthanize his dying dog.From the entry euthanize
  • The star-crossed lovers looked into each other's eyes, before dying.From the entry star-crossed
  • Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.From the entry horribly
  • Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.From the entry covid-19
  • I can't handle any more patients dying on me.From the entry die on
  • That movie was absolute cinema! I'm dying for a sequel.From the entry absolute cinema
  • The dying man's strength ebbed away.From the entry ebb
  • He was dying for a pee.From the entry pee
  • Unlike dying during the Great Ape Vegeta fight, you can’t retry right away.2024 October 9, Michael Gwilliam, “Forget Great Ape Vegeta, this is Dragon Ball Sparking Zero’s most frustrating feature”, in Dexerto. From the entry retry
  • It’s not like you ask for assisted dying on a Monday and you’re dead by Friday.2024 May 16, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Zoraya ter Beek, “Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering”, in…. From the entry assisted dying
  • Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying.2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times. From the entry mount
  • It keeps my mind on living and dying in noninnocent combinations; it situates me in Trumplandia.2023, Donna Haraway, “Revisiting Catland in 2019: Situating Denizens of the Chthulucene”, in Cynthia Huff, Margaretta Jolly, editors…. From the entry Trumplandia
  • This shared experience of living (and dying) during COVID-19 has proved a unifying force.2022, Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, “Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times”, in…. From the entry covid-19
  • With a pencil, he highlights areas where synaptic function is declining, where the neurons are dying.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 6. From the entry synaptic
  • Naturally, we cannot previsage our own deaths, though we can previsage a process of dying.2020, James Bernard Murphy, Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood, page 157. From the entry previsage
  • Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all, but there it is.2018, Gabe Hudson, “What a Fitting Place for me to Die, Here in the Belly of the Beast”, in Gork, the Teenage Dragon, page 202. From the entry dragoness

Meaning of dying

  1. adjective Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
  2. adjective Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
  3. adjective Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

Full definition of dying

Questions about dying in a sentence

How do you use dying in a sentence?
Dying is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!”
What is a short sentence with dying?
“a dying fire”
What does dying mean?
Dying means approaching death; about to die; moribund.

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