How to Use to the death in a Sentence

to the death

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  • Rogers: One that comes to mind is the fight to the death in the bath house in Episode 8.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • Britney Spears was the soundtrack to the death of my childhood.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • On the train to the death camp, the young father wraps one of his twins in a shawl and throws her off the train into the snow.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 May 2024
  • He has been linked to the death of Susana Morales, who was found in the woods near Dacula on Feb. 6.
    — al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The two brothers stay loyal to their queens and fight a tearful duel to the death.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 24 June 2024
  • Members are left mourning, comparing the loss to the death of a loved one.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The history they are taught does not go back as far as 1948 when the Jews had to fight to the death to live in U.N.-sanctioned Israel.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • In the film directed by Sam Raimi, Ellen fights to the death to get justice.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2023
  • John Malkovich is reacting to the death of close friend Julian Sands.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • Audiences compared the event to The Hunger Games, a dystopia where the wealthy sit back as everyone else fights to the death.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 May 2024
  • An Ohio couple have been sentenced in connection to the death of the man’s mother.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 5 June 2024
  • The only witness to the death was the couple’s 11-year-old blind son Daniel (Milo Machado-Graner).
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The question now is when, or if, an arrest will be made in connection to the death of Wallace.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Males are very territorial and will fight to the death.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The idea is that Fortnite will become more than just the game where players fight to the death on a colorful island.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Rosa has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of his mother.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • With both Charly and Hassan now captive, Griselda decides to make the two fight to the death in hand-to-hand combat.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The warrant, issued under a sealed indictment, is linked to the death of Alyssa Flores.
    — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The results come after civil rights protests erupted across the country in 2020 in response to the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by police.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Russian soldiers and their officers were fighting to the death.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The story took a tragic turn on Saturday when the Record reported that stress from the raid had contributed to the death of the paper’s owner.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The president ran in open opposition to the death penalty.
    — Dan Higgins, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Namely, plenty of deer and no other adult male mountain lions, which chase and sometimes even fight young lions to the death.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Eubanks had been sentenced to the death penalty, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole in 1972.
    — Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The numbers smashed records and notably spiked at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 before jumping yet again in June of that year as protests and riots spread across the nation in response to the death of Floyd.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In the past, Mulroy, a progressive Democrat, has voiced opposition to the death penalty.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • At one point, it was rumored that the livestreamed fight would take place in Rome’s Colosseum, where gladiators once gruesomely battled to the death.
    — Kristen Barber, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The circumstances leading up to the death are not immediately known.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Two people have been arrested in connection to the death of a newborn whose remains were found on a Pennsylvania street in March, according to local media reports.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024

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