natural death
death that occurs from natural causes, as disease or old age, rather than from violence or an accident.
Origin of natural death
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How to use natural death in a sentence
So much for wanting “the gaucheries of [his] youth” to “die a perfectly natural death.”
What the Leaked J.D. Salinger Stories Reveal About the Author | Andrew Romano | November 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBetter for all of us that it dies a natural death from simple repulsion and lack of interest.
Boycott the Cross-Dressing Show! ABC’s New Sitcom ‘Work It’ Doesn't Work | Noelle Howey | January 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTUnhappily the Duc d'Alencon, Catherine's last male child, had already died, a natural death.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de BalzacIt has been ridiculed so long that it should have died a natural death.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer MyersWith characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the report that the prisoner had died a natural death.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry Baird
If this proposal is agreeable to you, we must think of acting so that my brother should appear to have died a natural death.
The Arabian Nights | UnknownYour master's body is contained in these two bundles, and our business is, to bury him as if he had died a natural death.
The Arabian Nights | Unknown
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