How to Use death throes in a Sentence

death throes

noun
  • This method could entail spurts of blood or violent death throes.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • Two other stops provided an up-close look at the death throes of stars.
    — Rob Pegoraro, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
  • Now the revolution is in its death throes.
    — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Hopefully, those are the death throes of the violent regime.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • These ultimate death throes of the Universe’s most massive stars take us all the way up the periodic table.
    — Big Think, 27 Nov. 2025
  • On Christmas, the Broncos will take a short flight up to Kansas City to witness the death throes of a franchise that only has a couple of games left on the throne.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2025
  • His experiences amid the Soviet Union’s death throes burnished the impression that every nation must forge its own path distinct from cookie-cutter dogma.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • For just one example of how this firehose of data is expected to transform our understanding of the cosmos, consider supernovas, the brilliant death throes of exhausted stars.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • This led to it being identified as the wreckage of a supernova, which was curious because these explosive stellar death throes usually occur within the thick disk of stars across the central plane of our galaxy.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The microcosm of this family unit in its death throes is all there right on the court, from Bernard’s toxic competitiveness to the way Walt unconsciously picks up on his dad’s cues and then lords his victory over his little brother (Owen Kline).
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Wednesday’s home defeat against Manchester City leaves the Spaniard with just three wins across his last 10 games, but fans inside the Bernabeu stopped short of the white handkerchief-waving protest that often marks the death throes of a Los Blancos head coach.
    — Jack Bantock, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Swept up in the cinema-making of Italy’s auteurs, Nicholas finds himself on the sets of Fellini’s Casanova and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a harrowing film about the death throes and reincarnations of fascism made just before the director’s murder.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025

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