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  • It ends a harrowing "Titanic" - like ordeal which saw passengers dive in lifeboats before their ship made a deathroll into the water.

    CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007 2007

  • Which results in the instant deathroll of the bird (deathroll, as in your death, as the hawk lays there with talons and beak pointed up).

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

  • Here a man simply made a unit in an unnumbered population, an inconsequent dot in a loosely-compiled deathroll.

    The Unbearable Bassington 1870-1916 Saki 1893

  • The Republican Party of Minnesota is caught in a gator's deathroll in the DFL swamp right now.

    Residual Forces 2008

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