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Example sentences for "die for"

  • Truly, said she, an I die for to heal her I shall get me great worship and soul's health, and worship to my lineage, and better is one harm than twain.

  • Alas, said the king, this is to me a full heavy sight, to see this noble duke so die for my sake, for he would have holpen me, that had more need of help than I.

  • And therefore, fair knights, said Sir Launcelot, keep you as well as ye can, for I will rescue that knight or die for it.

  • And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

  • And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

  • In the meanwhile all the palace awaked; everyone thought upon their particular business, and as all of them were not in love they were ready to die for hunger.

  • If anyone is to die for her it must be me.

  • If you wish me to die for you, I will gladly lay down my life; but I will not leave you.

  • They all love it and long for it; but everyone wishes above all to die for others.

  • I who have so often killed the law, let me die for it.

  • Let me who have defied the law so long, let me now stand for it--die for it.

  • The man who could fight his guns as he did at Shiloh, and could offer to die for a friend, is good enough to receive pardon, for anything he may have done or may do, from "A.

  • I who have been buffeted and abused by Fate, given all on earth I do not want, and denied the one thing I'd die for; I'll show them who they are up against.

  • I am almost glad of it, for friendships so sealed are said to be eternal, and Germany will, perhaps, revere my memory when I die for her.

  • Brethren, let us die for liberty if we cannot live for it.

  • The woman may die of this calumny, but dying she will still be a queen, and say, 'I die for my country, and for my people!

  • The young man said: "David, I am willing to die for you.

  • David, I am ready to die for you, What need have I of salt and butter; forty thieving Dews have come and driven away our calves.

  • The priest's daughter went to David and said: "David, I am ready to die for you!

  • But on the contrary am ready with my sword, my youth and blood to serve you, and bring my little aids on all occasions to yours: and should be proud of the glory to die for you in battle, who would deliver me up a sacrifice to France.

  • His trust was so perfect, that he did not even grieve at having to die for a faithless friend who had left him to the fate to which he had unwarily pledged himself.

  • But no extremity of agony could extract aught but praises of the prince, and assurances of his readiness to die for him.

  • Who, soon to die for human-kind, Thought only, mid his mortal pain, How many a soul was left behind For whom he died that death in vain!

  • On that let statesmen try their powers, And tremble o'er the rights they'd die for; The union of the soul be ours, And every union else we sigh for.

  • We thank Thee that no love of gain Is leading us, but that we fight To keep our banner free from stain And that we die for what is right.

  • Her you'll see, if I die for it," said Deborah, and whirled up the wooden steps in a silent manner surprising in so noisy a woman.

  • You can pinch me, sir, or gives me black eyes and red noses if you like, but no finger on my precious, if I die for it.

  • But I won't die for many a long day," he said, with a determined air.

  • Would he be equally willing, he asked himself, to die for it?

  • Ellis resolved that the negro should not, if he could prevent it, die for another's crime; but what proof had he himself to offer in support of his theory?

  • Surely, with doctors all around him, his child would not be permitted to die for lack of medical attention!

  • It is more pertinent if less easy to remember that a readiness to die for one's country is not the highest form of political virtue.

  • And this supposition is corroborated at first sight by the realisation that hundreds of thousands, that actually millions of previously ordinary young men have implied by enlisting their willingness to die for England.

  • Not only a land to live for, but a land to die for, and happy the man who dies for it!

  • If I die for HIM, will you forgive my poor blood-stained and deluded brother, and your own?

  • You, the champion of your house, who offered to die for us!

  • I’ll drink the king’s health again, if I die for it.

  • Did you not tell me that our duty was to die for him?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "die for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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