To be in the proccess of dying, to face the foreseeable and inevitable end ones life usually due to sickness.
1 The camp was half hidden, and the fires there must be dying .
2 The scare of a few weeks back seemed to be dying down.
3 She might be dying - dead for aught I knew-whenhe reached the house.
4 He seemed to be dying on his feet, when the master whistled.
5 The man may be dying of want, and you slip past afraid.
6 Her friends will be dying of envy, and she will enjoy that.
7 They should be dying , you know, since you no longer use them.
8 For all Malemute Kid knew, she might be dying a mile away.
9 It meant that Tommy was very ill, that he might be dying .
10 My potted plants must be dying from lack of water by now.
11 Linguist Elizabeth Gordon says its possible extreme accents could be dying out.
12 Indeed, I may say my sexual nature seemed to be dying out.
13 I thought you would be dying to get to her right now-
14 By the time he 's finished, they'll be dying for some real entertainment.
15 Thirty years from now, the big cities may be dying very fast.
16 Miriam might be dying but she was also fully living at last.
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