Sentence examples for like a dies from inspiring English sources

A descending four-note bass pattern keeps recurring like a "Dies irae" motif.

Now with Christmas approaching, my heart has that sinking feeling--like a dying sun at sunset.

A system that consumes more than $30 billion a year should not collapse like a dying star when its budget drops by a few percent points.

Someone else is grunting like a dying pig.

"It sounded like a dying cat," Saer said.

"Urgh!" offers Nahid, croaking like a dying parrot.

They have become the detritus of what seems, on a bad day, like a dying culture.

Yet around the nation, the police sketch can look like a dying art.

"I behaved like a dying koi fish, flailing around and dry-heaving.

Like a dying Zen master, V even turned death into a good line.

Even at the street level, Syracuse does not look like a dying upstate city.