し
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. death
He acted as if he weren't afraid of death.
Noun
Baseball
2. (an) out
3. death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (214 in total)
cause of death
death in battle
(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament
Examples (75 in total)
I'm afraid of death.
I had a premonition of my own death.
Death is certain to come to everybody.
Man is unable to escape death.
Back then, I was resigned even to dying.
Your death is my life.
A year has passed since he died.
Death is but an instant, but life is long.
My old man had foreseen his own death.
His death made everyone sad.
Nobody can escape death.
All tragedies end with a death.
We received word of her death.
He barely escaped death.
I mourn my friend's untimely death.
Birth is, in a manner, the beginning of death.
News of his death wasn't published for several weeks.
We regret his death.
His death was a sublime self-sacrifice.
Death is preferable to shame.
He avenged his father's death.
The whole nation mourned the hero's death.
Once again, I was able to escape death.
The cause of his death was a car accident.
She mourned the death of her only son.
His death surprised us all.
The child was incapable of understanding his father's death.
There is nothing scarier than death.
I don't fear death anymore.
None can get away from death.
The novel ends with the heroine's death.
It makes me sad to think of her death.
The death of the king brought about a war.
His death was owing to his reckless driving.
Her death is a blow to my feelings.
Since ancient times, people have feared death.
I was discouraged to hear of his death.
People deeply mourned his death.
He hasn't got over the death of his wife yet.
My grandfather miraculously came back from the brink of death.
The sole equality on earth is death.
The poet compared death to sleep.
The rich and the poor are afraid of death.
The story ends with his death.
I was deeply affected when I heard of his death.
The soldiers narrowly escaped death.
His sudden death was a tragedy.
The news of his death came like a bolt from out of the blue.
I think his death is a national loss.
Can you sense the shadow of death hanging over this area?
Give me liberty or give me death.
Her death was a great shock to me.
His death was great shock to his wife.
The war brought about death and destruction in the city.
His sudden death surprised us greatly.
You must choose between honor and death.
Thanks to that, I escaped death by a hair.
The police are treating his death as a case of murder.
His death has left a vacuum in their lives.
I have no idea what death is like.
His death was a great loss to our country.
People regretted his sudden death deeply.
His death was a great loss to our firm.
We often associate black with death.
The mother was still grieving over her child's death.
What doctors should do is to save lives and fight against death.
Throughout the trip, I kept thinking about my brother's death.
The newspaper told of the mother's anguish at the death of her son.
The death of my mother left a big blank in my life.
Can we find joy in spite of suffering and death?
Tom must choose between honor and death.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Your assumption that his death was an accident seems to be wrong.
I delayed telling him about his uncle's death as long as I could.