How to Use fatality in a Sentence

fatality

noun
  • The car crash caused one fatality and several serious injuries.
  • The time of day when a tornado occurs also makes a big difference in the fatality rate.
    Haley Brink, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Ferraro's death marks the 92nd traffic fatality in Tucson this year.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Officials fear that more fatalities may be discovered on Friday.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The woman’s death was the city’s 60th fatal traffic collision and 62nd traffic fatality this year, police said.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2022
  • This has fed into threats and real-world violence: A recent five-fatality shooting at a gay bar in Colorado with transgender victims is being charged as a hate crime.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The death marks the fifth fire fatality in the city this year.
    Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The death marked the 29th traffic fatality of the year on city streets.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The death marked the 37th traffic fatality of the year on city streets.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The death marked the 24th traffic fatality of the year on city streets.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • The death marked the city’s second traffic fatality of the year.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • The fatalities there are already in the hundreds and this is just the beginning.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The death now marks four fatalities at the park since 2019, according to First Coast News.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Of those deaths, 75% occurred during the months of July and August, and 65% of the fatalities were among teenagers.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • About 30 of those fatalities were in children under the age of 18.
    Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2024
  • The driver’s death is the 21st traffic fatality so far this year in Kansas City.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Cattle deaths from the South Fork fire far surpass the cow fatalities two years ago when an upstate New York farm fire claimed the lives of 400.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The first crash occurred around 4:30 a.m. on East Mission Road, less than 3 miles from the second fatality.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Biden’s comments were his first on the wildfires since the number of fatalities surpassed over the weekend.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The raid was the latest episode in a year that is already on pace to be one of the deadliest for Palestinians, with more than 150 fatalities.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, of the 30 traffic fatalities among cyclists last year, 23 were on e-bikes, a record.
    Laura Kavanagh, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
  • The crash marked the ninth traffic fatality this year on San Jose streets — six of which have involved pedestrians.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The survivors have been returned to the U.S. On the same afternoon in the same city, not far from where the Americans were attacked, there was a third fatality.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Ten of the 13 fatalities listed the place of death as a residence, coroner’s data show.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Across Israel and inside the Gaza Strip, the sheer scale of deaths, the numbing numbers of fatalities, are overwhelming the living.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • On the week of the incident, a significant storm blew through the Teton area and dropped 20 to 30 inches of snow in the Greys River area where the fatality occurred.
    Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
  • At least 11 Americans were among the fatalities, and more are believed to be taken hostage.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Part of that story is the death toll from the cold front, now at 14 after five more fatalities were reported Tuesday.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • He was later medically cleared and booked into jail on multiple counts, including manslaughter and fleeing the scene of a collision involving an injury or fatality.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The approximately 44 people dead in North Carolina represent a third of all fatalities from the storm.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024

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