Sentence examples for essentially death from inspiring English sources

It was essentially death by a thousand cuts".

Tontines that is, investment contracts which are essentially death gambles permeate the American and international landscape in varieties that sometimes obscure their tontine-like qualities.

To describe, as Ignatieff does, terror-wielding groups like Al Qaeda and Hamas as "less political than apocalyptic" and essentially "death cults" may be comforting.

Essentially, Death Valley is a graben, or rift valley, formed by the sinking of a tremendous expanse of rock lying between parallel uplifted, tilted-block mountain ranges to the east and west.

Their strategy is essentially "death by a thousand cuts," although their success doesn't actually depend on whether the whales die.

I have, I am afraid, gone full dad, and I have a chair that I like to sit in when I watch television and play on the PlayStation, and I get really angsty if anyone else sits in it, because I am creaking into the abyss one notch on the gear at a time, and I know now that I am older than I am young, and essentially: death soon, please↩.

They were doing essentially a death investigation".

"This is essentially a death sentence for them".

It's also essentially the death of a meme.

Here's a girl who's essentially at death's door, but she gives her such vitality that an audience is rooting for her the entire time.

Celice tells her students that whereas single-celled organisms, dividing again and again, are essentially immortal, "death is the price we pay for being multi-celled".