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Breathe your last Meaning in English

expression

BREETH-yer-LAST
breedh-yaw-LAHST

释义

To die; to take one's last breath and pass away. This is a poetic and gentle way to say someone has died.

用法与细微差别

Formal, literary, or poetic—rarely used in casual speech. Softens the statement compared to direct expressions like 'die'. Often found in stories, biographies, or old-fashioned speech.

例句

After a long illness, he finally breathed his last.

basic

Many heroes breathed their last on the battlefield.

basic

She breathed her last peacefully in her sleep.

basic

The old oak finally breathed its last after standing for centuries.

natural

He clung to life for days before finally breathing his last.

natural

When the movie hero breathed his last, the entire theater went silent.

natural