| The tulips almost got to flowering but then seemed to give up the ghost, go pale and slowly fall over. |
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| With impeccable timing my sewing machine has chosen now to give up the ghost. |
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| Having queued for 45 minutes to get money, the three bank machines each give up the ghost. |
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| To tell the truth, folks, there are so many debates running in parallel here that I'm inclined to give up the ghost. |
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| A few reactors in her brain decided to give up the ghost, and she simply stared, incapable of speech or action. |
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| The engine inside his or her head will give up the ghost at the next bend. |
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| Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? |
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| Vehicles, like other consumer goods, have limited life cycles. No matter how well made they are, or how well they have been maintained, some day they all give up the ghost. |
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| Indeed once the float bulkhead was repaired and then reinforced by the Groupama team's shore crew, with the assistance of a handful of South African's from Team Shosholoza, it was the generator which was to give up the ghost. |
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| But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past. |
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| Onions give up the ghost, flesh sizzles, a metal spoon clinks on a dish. |
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| In the case of our Sea Kings, personnel live in perpetual fear that those antiquated helicopter will just give up the ghost after their many years of faithful service. |
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