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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
death throes
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The regime seems to be in its death throes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He leaps and plunges like a wounded stag through agonizing death throes.
▪ He screamed as loudly as his horse that was now blocking the high road with its failing death throes.
▪ It is a star in serious trouble, with bright bloated lobes of gas swelling off it, announcing its death throes.
▪ Its reflexes and death throes would cause it to fly.
▪ Not quite, but this looks suspiciously like the death throes.
▪ The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
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death throes

n. (death throe English)

Usage examples of "death throes".

As the six watched its death throes, something came up from beneath it, with jaws as big as a dragline excavator, and sucked the gull down.

The serpent shrieked in its death throes, and its cries reached its fellows.

Oblivious to the water that was at his knees now, to the shattering crashes that told him Dragon Wing was in its death throes, he stared hard at his hands, tried in vain to trace the comforting, reassuring lines of the runes.

It lashed out in its death throes, wrapped its tail around the assassin's legs, and both crashed to the floor.

Within seconds there was a quiver that ran through the ship, something Kirk could identify almost as the death throes of his vessel.

The nights would still be cold, but the snow last night had probably been the last of the season and winter was in its death throes.

Its long mosquitolike snout still stabbed and probed, even as it twitched in its death throes.

When the vicar was kicking his death throes with Andy's scout knife protruding from his belly they'd hail Andy Drew as their champion, their hero.