death by...

Frequency: 7.815.9 per million words

used to specify the cause, e.g., death by starvation

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Examples (10)

  • The official report cited death by starvation as the primary cause.
  • The condemned prisoner faced death by firing squad at dawn.
  • The coroner determined the cause was death by asphyxiation.
  • It was a tragic case of death by drowning in the local lake.
  • Forensic evidence pointed to a slow and painful death by poisoning.
  • He narrowly avoided death by electrocution while fixing the faulty wiring.
  • The sentence for the traitor was death by hanging.
  • The medical examiner ruled the cause of death by blunt force trauma.
  • This dessert is so rich they call it "death by chocolate".
  • The official verdict in the climbing accident was death by misadventure.