Sentence examples for brush with mortality from inspiring English sources

Earlier this year, Holmes had a brush with mortality.

Dulli does think about his own, more recent, brush with mortality.

"It's my third brush with mortality and the most serious," he says.

But what is swimming if not a sublime brush with mortality?

"I think the book meditates on mortality and all of us really have had a brush with mortality," she said.

A passing reference to Harry's childhood brush with mortality turns his near-drowning into a near-collision with a truck.

Brushes with mortality straighten a man up".

You do see things differently after you've had those brushes with mortality.

He has explored his Essex childhood and Oxford education before, as well as close brushes with mortality – his own and other people's.

In fact, some have experienced serious brushes with mortality -- from a quasi-electrocution and a monthlong coma to an emergency plane landing and a severe case of malaria -- reminding us that celebrities are, of course, still human.

The next such brush with fiscal mortality on the schedule is, of course, the sequester.