Example sentences for: deathbed

How can you use “deathbed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life.

  • This week the Enquirer has a story about the "deathbed vigil" for Larry Fortensky, Elizabeth Taylor's most recent former husband, the one-time construction worker she met when they were both in rehab.

  • In a front-page comment Thursday, La Stampa took a serious and condemnatory line on the marketing in America of Pol Pot's deathbed sandals as "the new youth symbol of revolutionary anti-Western romanticism."

  • Richard Schwartz (Geogetown) uses Boswell's interview with Hume on his deathbed to explore Boswell's own philosophy as well as his attitude toward death and the life hereafter.

  • Running parallel to the story of the author's dying is that of his relationship with his wife, Ellen Schwamm Brodkey, and the mixture of deathbed wit, tenderness, and sensuality the couple share.


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