die to

1. Also, be dying to. Long greatly to do something, as in I'm dying to go to Alaska. [c. 1700] Also see die for.

Example Sentences

“Mayors always tell me they would die to have one of these companies, and we have dozens and dozens,” says Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s first-term mayor, rattling off buzzy startups like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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He told me people in Gaza are so desperate that they will their elderly relatives to die to spare them further suffering.

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But his willingness to die to end slavery led to the first marching song of the United States Army in the Civil War: “John Brown’s Body.”

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Their marching song, the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” said it all: “As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.”

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“So to make that harder for folks to vote, to challenge their ballots that are lawful and submitted on time, it is incredibly disrespectful to every person in uniform. It’s incredibly disrespectful to the Constitution that we have said we would die to defend.”

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