Maximus finally succeeds as Valentinian dies a painful and drawn-out death by poison.

Finally his thoughts decay into a drawn-out death.

As a veteran of la Guerre d'Algérie, the curator had witnessed this horribly drawn-out death before.

I stood my ground, even as Melanie cried during the detective's drawn-out death.

Delaney did not meet the same slow, agonizing, drawn-out death as Harold Hannon.

I am truly sorry that the man had such an ignominious and drawn-out death, and I sympathize with his family.

But even so, he can list nearly a hundred so-called crimes for which the almost invariable penalty is death, quite often a drawn-out, messy death at that.

"It's just unfortunate that it was such a drawn-out death," the doctor said today.

Though it wasn't the long and painfully drawn-out death he would have wished on Ali, it was what the circumstances dictated.

Her drawn-out death caused her family to attack the accuracy of the book's advice.