expires
- present tense form of expire (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The cave-lodged Beggar,with a conscience clear, Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to Heaven.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
The cave-lodg’d beggar, with a conscience clear, Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to Heav’n.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
The cave-lodged beggar, with a conscience clear, Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to heaven.
From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.
They talk of short-lived pleasure—be it so— Pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
From Poems by Bryant, William Cullen
For instance, one little manikin thing Survives to wear many a wrinkle; While Death forbids another to wake, And a son that it took nine moons to make Expires without even a twinkle!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
