How to Use die out in a Sentence

die out

verb
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  • But the evolutionary line never completely died out says Müller.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The storm moved back east and intensified before making a second landfall in Africa and dying out.
    — Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2024
  • The youngest were from Wrangel Island male mammoths who perished right around the time the last of these mammoths died out (one of them died just 4,333 years ago).
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024
  • Keep the ropes in the water, says one side, and the right whales will die out.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The Vergara source claims the actress and the True Blood alum’s flame died out over the years.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • Showers and storms should die out as the sun sets and winds calm.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • The aim is to get the infection rate to less than 1—even slightly—so that the virus will die out.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • That meant Lance was left to die out in a field, choking on his own blood… with his fly down.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The protests that began nearly four years ago in Hong Kong have all but died out.
    — Bret Baier, Fox News, 31 May 2023
  • Researchers warn all coral reefs on Earth could die out by the end of the century.
    — CNN, 11 July 2023
  • If all the weeds die out, the fish will often be suspended in 8 to 15 feet of water.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Grubs feed on the grass roots and chinch bugs feed on the grass blades, which can cause sections of the lawn to die out and look like drought damage.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • There could be any number of reasons for sections of lawn to die out at this time of year.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Those storms will die out by midnight and the weather overnight looks quiet.
    — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
  • By the end of the Cold War, the practice had died out, as U.S. forces were made up of volunteers rather than draftees and feminism was on the rise.
    — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • In some areas of the bay, more than 95 percent of the seahorse’s population has died out over the last decade.
    — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Some have seen a figure of a bearded man in blue coveralls that looks just like the man who died out of the corner of their eyes.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Everything in this movie is always on the verge of running out and dying out.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
  • The goal is to sever enough transmission that R<<1/outbreaks die out.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 2 Oct. 2020
  • If species die out before their germplasm can be preserved, their promise will be lost for good.
    — Maryn McKenna, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Researchers will need to scour oceans, deserts, and rain forests to collect samples before species die out.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The process would continue until the signals die out, too faint to detect.
    — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2019
  • In Germany, the last wolf pack was believed to have died out around 1850 — hunted out of existence.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The weather service expects the storms to die out after sunset.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 24 June 2020
  • Of course, people like to own things so owning cars won’t completely die out.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • These are viruses that mutate a lot, and some of those mutations are harmful to the virus, and those variants die out.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • By afternoon, most showers should die out and some sun should begin to peek through.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
  • We’re caught in the middle between one storm dying out over the eastern Great Lakes and a new one forming off the Mid-Atlantic coast.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The Ducks can still make it to Omaha for the first time since 1954, a gap that spans entire lifetimes and has even seen the Ducks program die out and be born anew.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 June 2023
  • Belle Vie is a state of mind, Samarco said, and restaurants won’t die out; people need to socialize.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022

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