(n.) The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her daughter Cassandra said: “I feel like he’s been the closest to us and the best parent when he’s been moving toward his true identity.” Jenner said her emergence as Caitlyn was all about living: “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.
(2) The publication of the will follows a turbulent year of public rows over his estate involving members of the Mandela family, even as their patriarch lay on his deathbed.
(3) A fierce hope for change, a particular dream of a different China, is also lying on its deathbed in the northern Chinese hospital where Liu’s treatment is being rationed out, by doctors of unknown competence and uncharted loyalties.
(4) Many of the robbers have already died: Charlie Wilson was shot dead in the Spain in 1990; Buster Edwards killed himself in 1994; Roy James died in 1997; Jimmy Hussey died last year after supposedly making a deathbed confession that he was the gang member who coshed the train driver, Jack Mills, who died of leukaemia seven years later.
(5) Queen Victoria, on her deathbed, asked for the company of her Pomeranian, Turi, who stayed with her in her final moments.
(6) In an interview with Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger about her transition, Jenner tells Vanity Fair: “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’” 'Call me Caitlyn': Jenner owns her identity in Vanity Fair interview Read more A video released by the magazine shows Jenner on the shoot at her home in Malibu.
(7) Anyone else who thought of crossing Russia would think again after reading of the agonising 23 days Litvinenko spent on his deathbed.
(8) In fairness to Ms Williams, as we picture her hovering over our deathbeds with a retinue of homophobic cherubim, she does not conceal, as an evangelical activist, that her zeal has its origins somewhere far beyond the reach of reason and humankindness.
(9) Unsurprising when you consider that Napoleon was wrong about lots of things, such as being really tall, invading Russia and speaking clearly on his deathbed so that those in the vicinity could make an accurate note of his comments for posterity, but in this case he was dreadfully, spectacularly wrong.
(10) No matter how positive you feel about Facebook or Twitter and the ways in which they've enhanced your life, it is unlikely that anyone will ever lie on their deathbed and say, "You know what?
(11) In recent years that deathbed injunction has been overtaken by fear of instability and violence in the country's unruly neighbour.
(12) The Cuban missile crisis had temporarily boosted CND: the Labour party conference had actually voted for unilateral nuclear disarmament in 1960 , before changing its mind again the following year, influenced strongly by leftwing icon Aneurin Bevan's deathbed refusal to "go naked into the conference chamber".
(13) A quarter century later it is said to have blown down in a violent storm, to be stolen by a sentry who only admitted this on his deathbed.
(14) Western parents no longer routinely bury their children, as the Victorians did – and while the very old may be nursed somewhat haphazardly in hospital, their children are mostly relieved of the physical duties of the deathbed.
(15) ARMSTRONG ON DOPING I have been on my deathbed, and I am not stupid.
(16) He fell lifeless outside an abandoned building in a little alleyway, number 1313 Republic Street, where the tributes are modest - bottles of wine or beer on his flagstone deathbed, and a placard: 'No seatbelt equals death.'
(17) It added that Bate was “intrusive” in attempting to describe the scene around Hughes’ deathbed.
(18) Playing party politics with investors' confidence in the UK reminds me of the story about the pharaoh on his deathbed.
(19) Away from the deathbed, Riva lives quietly in a Paris apartment, which, reports suggest, is not so different from Anne's bourgeois home in Amour.
(20) Another possible cousin, she suggests, is Michael Haneke's deathbed drama Amour , except that here her breath catches and her eyes start to glisten.
Dies
Definition:
(pl. ) of Die
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
(6) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(8) No evidence of BPH was observed in 68.4% of patients who had died of cancer.
(9) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(10) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(11) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(12) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
(13) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
(16) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(17) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(18) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(19) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
(20) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.