Sentence examples for first experience of death from inspiring English sources
The boy died; it was Ganesh's first experience of death.
It is not, despite his relative youth, Keating's first experience of death: he lost his mother Marie to breast cancer 11 years ago but not even that seismic grief could prepare him for what happened last month.
"It was my first experience of death in the sport I most love," Schumacher said on Thursday, careful also to acknowledge the accident, the day before Senna's, that took the life of the Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger.
In Cricket Term, death intrudes, followed by a subtle and yet brutally realistic and unsentimental scene in which the girls try to navigate not just their first experience of death but the death of someone they didn't like very much.
What might be an adventurous youthful journey is succeeded by the suggestion of a meditative look back on first experiences of death.
That was for me the first experience of the death of someone who was quite close".
For the soldiers of the First Brigade, most of them in their early 20's, it was their first experience of killing, their first encounter with death on such a scale.
The loss of Kadambari, Tagore writes in "My Reminiscences," was his first mature experience of death, and it forever transformed the way he thought and wrote.
For children, the death of a pet is often our first experience with death itself, a harsh rejoinder to the innocence and sense of immortality that pervades youth.
