1.   And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?

2.   But dying by my own hand is too good for me.

3.   If his execution proceeds as scheduled, he would become the first to die by lethal injection in California.

4.   Patients were dying by the hundreds, but there was nobody to carry away the corpses.

5.   People in the drought-stricken region are dying by the hundreds.

6.   Starving animals in the region are dying by the thousands.

7.   You live and die by your expertise, not your day job.

8.   The villain in the play dies by drinking a vial of poison.

9.   As far as I know, none of my ill-starred relations has ever died by the gun.