dying word

Examples (10)

• The detective leaned in close, hoping to catch the victim's dying words.
• Her dying words to her children were simply 'I love you'.
• In his will, he claimed that his father's dying words revealed the location of the hidden treasure.
• "Rosebud" is perhaps the most famous dying word in cinema history.
• The historian spent years trying to verify the king's alleged dying words.
• The nurse wrote down the patient's dying words as a final comfort to the family.
• What were the last coherent things he said? We need to know his dying words.
• It's a common literary trope for a character's dying words to be a crucial clue.
• The old soldier's dying words were a whisper of his wife's name.
• The legend says the oracle's dying words were a prophecy of the empire's fall.