Words similar to died

Example sentences for: died

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

When he died, a millionaire, in 1850 (back when a million dollars really meant something), he left his money to the city to build schools for the poor.
When Howard Carter peered through the dusty air of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and, in his own words, “wonderful things” met his eyes, he confirmed the immeasurable wealth of the Pharaohs, and when the backer of the dig, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly only a few months later, vox populi blamed it on the curse of the Pharaohs mummy — and Hollywood was quick to feed our fantasies.
As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903, Cézanne in 1906, Degas in 1917, Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up, once again, like Ishmael, at the end of Moby-Dick : "Now I am the last survivor of the group," he sighed.
To cite just one example, 25 North Carolina workers died during a chicken-plant fire in 1991, due to "locked exit doors that were blocked off so workers wouldn't steal chickens."
It is impossible to measure how many more civilians would have died but for the determination of many members of the FDNY, PAPD, and NYPD to continue assisting civilians after the South Tower collapsed.