How to Use dying wish in a Sentence

dying wish

noun
  • Hanabusa later gave up her seat to run for Senate, hoping to fulfil Inouye’s dying wish.
    ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Across this soppy set of songs, the sum of these frictions is cyborgish and spectral, music from a MacBook whose dying wish was to see the world.
    Samuel Hyland, Pitchfork, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Honoring a news’ legend’s last wish Bass carried out her friend Bishop’s dying wish — to have her ashes spread at Joe’s garden.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In the spring of 2022, Canadian teenager Markus Schouten’s dying wish was that no child should be forced to choose between life and death.
    Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, a dying wish and a cryptic clue lead the unlikely duo on a journey full of twists and turns, bad choices, awkward conversations, lies, fights, mystery, betrayal, and a dangerous killer.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
  • The trailer also confirms that Conrad followed his late mother Susannah Fisher (Rachel Blanchard)'s dying wish of moving to the West Coast.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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