How to Use death toll in a Sentence

death toll

noun
  • The death toll across all states stands at 235 but is expected to climb.
    Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, the death toll in Lebanon continues to rise, with a fifth of its population now displaced.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Since the initial news broke, the death toll has increased.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But the true death toll will take years—likely more than a decade—to unfold.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
  • And the death toll of U.S. citizens rose to 30, with 13 still missing.
    Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But the official death toll has not risen since Aug. 21.
    Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The encampments started in the past few weeks amid the mounting death toll in Gaza.
    Avani Kalra, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • The death toll of the Maui fires, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, now stands at 114 people.
    Paola Rosa-Aquino, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The death toll over the past week has reached 23 protesters killed by police.
    Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • Thousands more were missing and the death toll is likely to rise in the coming days.
    Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In Tennessee, the statewide death toll rose to 15 on Sunday, with three deaths in the city of Memphis alone.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The death toll stood at 103 Tuesday night but was expected to rise.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 14 June 2023
  • There is no independent source for the death toll in Gaza.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • The government said hundreds of people were killed in the clash, but others put the death toll in the thousands.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Saturday's report on the death toll was up two from the day before.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Hamilton County’s 2022 death toll marked a six-year low.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In Michigan, the death toll hovered around 3,000 during those years.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The group insists that the war in Gaza—which has outraged Arab public opinion over the high death toll—must first come to an end.
    Firas Maksad, TIME, 22 June 2024
  • At least 55 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, a pace that could exceed last year’s death toll.
    Aref Tufaha and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Flood damage in the city of Derna, where the death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The overall death toll, however, may not tell the whole story.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Hamas health officials say the death toll has topped 9,400 people.
    CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • People are still dying, adding to the death toll here that is approaching 6,000.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The pastor doubted that approach on its own would make a dent in the country’s daily death toll.
    Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The death toll reflects the demand for the use of rhino horns in traditional medicine.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 4 July 2024
  • And as the death toll in Gaza keeps rising, more and more people believe Israel should agree to a ceasefire.
    Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Some estimates, though, set the death toll even higher.
    Josh Snyder, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The airstrikes come as Israel and Hamas approach their 100th day of war, with no end to the conflict in sight and the death toll continuing to rise.
    Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The death toll is expected to climb, and many are still missing in the rubble of flattened apartments.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The death toll from an attack on a concert hall in Moscow continues to rise.
    Brian Mann, NPR, 24 Mar. 2024

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