sit on death's doorstep
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be on the brink of death; to be almost dead.
Example Sentences
- "You can sit on death's doorstep, And rest your weary bones."
- "From the Otherworld she hopes, as a shaman, to retrieve the soul of her dead or dying intended husband, who sits on Death's doorstep."
- "Even when I had an excellent diet, within 5 years of drinking Ocean Spray juices, sodas, Gatorade and sugar sweetened tea every day, I had blown out my kidneys and was sitting on death's doorstep."
- "The soldiers, officers, and priests all devoted considerable time and effort to nursing the ill men back to health, but too many of them still sat on death's doorstep."