How to Use fatality in a Sentence

fatality

noun

• The car crash caused one fatality and several serious injuries.
• Just don’t attempt it when there’s rain in the forecast, as flash floods are common and fatalities have occurred.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2024
• The spokesperson said one fatality was confirmed as a result of the derailment.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Corvin credited those efforts with bringing down the worker fatality rate in Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2022
• Jackson died two days after the incident, becoming the sixth fatality.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
• Police spokesman James Love confirmed there was one fatality and police are investigating.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2022
• The fatality follows several other climbing deaths reported this summer in national parks.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• Both twins later died but only one fatality was included in the CDC's case count because the bacteria was not detected in the other twin.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 23 Nov. 2024
• The death marks the fifth fire fatality in the city this year.
  — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• The death marks the city’s 11th traffic fatality of the year.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 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 29th traffic fatality of the year on city streets.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 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 high-speed trains have reportedly had the worst per-mile fatality rate in the country.
  — Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024