How to Use demise in a Sentence

demise

noun
Definition of demisenext
Synonyms for demisenext
  • Losing this game will mean the team's demise.
  • She had no property at the time of her demise.
  • The musician met an untimely demise.
  • We have not had truly local news coverage since the town newspaper's demise three years ago.
  • Even then, the law could still meet its demise in the courts.
    — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The fate of the losers, on the other hand, is a gruesome demise.
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The move wasn’t related to the demise of the deal, one of the people said.
    — Ian King and bloomberg, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Several of the band members said that the show led to the act’s demise.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But here’s the piece of Chang’s demise that troubles me.
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2018
  • The demise of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age was treated simply as a matter of fact.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
  • But the demise of precedent has long been a hallmark of the Trump era.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • By the end of the video, each man reaches the top of a ledge and jumps off to their seeming demise.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
  • He has been resigned to the building’s demise for some time.
    — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2019
  • But, anyway, that contributed to the demise of the lead.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 June 2021
  • In the wake of the effort’s demise, Democrats blamed each other.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • As the Willis enter the stage, their dance reenacts their demise.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • Arrieta started three of those games, this time part of the demise rather than the cure.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
  • No, there is more to the demise of unions than K-street lawyering.
    — Michael Hicks, Indianapolis Star, 1 July 2018
  • Lydia is able to finish the job by leading the horde to a cliff to meet a watery demise.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The demise of a concert venue or live-music club can be swift or slow.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Pilots, too, may have played a role in the airplane cure’s demise.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2017
  • One reason is that El Niño sows the seeds of its own demise.
    — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Few outside the field of soil science have heard of humus’s demise.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • But paired with that success came demise, downfall and deaths.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Cox has had plenty to say about the series in the wake of his character’s demise.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • That space invited a quick trip from any floor to a brutal demise.
    — Monica Drake, Longreads, 5 Mar. 2018
  • There's no time like the present to prepare for your ultimate demise.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Post-crisis rules require banks to plan for their own demise.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Price wars and a change in architectural taste, though, led to the brick's demise.
    — Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022
  • Failure to do so may be the result of his demise at Texas Tech.
    — Dallas News, 13 May 2021

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