EXPIRE in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for EXPIRE, such as:

1. Strong hate itself shall expire.
2. My season ticket will expire this week.
3. The delay demanded by Beauchamp had nearly expired.
4. This ticket has passed its expiration date, and so it is now invalid.
5. This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPIRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expire
 v.  come to an end; terminate; lose validity; breathe one's last breath; die
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  He showed Huck the fragment of candle-wick perched on a lump of clay against the wall, and described how he and Becky had watched the flame struggle and expire.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  Alas, yes; the poor old gentleman is entirely helpless; the mind alone is still active in this human machine, and that is faint and flickering, like the light of a lamp about to expire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
3  I am not yet twenty-one, and Eugenie is only seventeen; but the two months expire next week.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks.
4  For I am generally disinterested in my love, and think I could be content to make a figure before Miss Larkins, and expire.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
5  It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
6  Strong hate itself shall expire.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  You told me, four weeks ago, that Thurston had an option on some South African property which would expire in a month, and which he desired you to share with him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
8  Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE
9  Spada died on the threshold of the vineyard; the nephew expired at his own door, making signs which his wife could not comprehend.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
10  He had just expired, with clinched hands, his mouth in a spasm of agony, and his hair on end in the sweat of death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
11  The delay demanded by Beauchamp had nearly expired.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 84. Beauchamp.
12  Immediately afterwards the light expired, and the room was plunged in frightful obscurity, while the clock at that minute struck half-past four.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 102. Valentine.
13  Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  For did ye three but once take the full-forced shock, then mine own electric thing, THAT had perhaps expired from out me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
Example Sentence:
1  Doctors said two people who were wounded seriously in accident would expire in the way to hospital.
2  My season ticket will expire this week.
3  Several prominent Republicans have already made it clear that they will call the expiration of this tax cut a tax increase.
4  This ticket has passed its expiration date, and so it is now invalid.