How to Use fatality rate in a Sentence

fatality rate

noun

• The low fatality rate, by the way, isn’t mostly due to the kinds of cars Utahns tend to drive.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• The fatality rate in Australia is 23%, while the kill rate in Africa is a whopping 38%, according to the site.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• But the fatality rate varies widely by outbreak, and has ranged from 23% to 90%, according to the CDC.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 16 Feb. 2023
• Later estimates that tried to capture the toll across the world pegged the case fatality rate between 2% and 3%.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
  — Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
• Overall, the United States has tallied the most attacks (720) with a fatality rate of 6%.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• This type of plague is considered the most serious form of the disease, with a high fatality rate.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
• Typically found in the Great Lakes region and the Northeast, Powassan virus has a fatality rate of about 10%.
  — Maia Pandey, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• By comparison, aisle seats in the middle of the cabin had a fatality rate of 44 percent.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• The virus is highly contagious among birds and has a nearly 100% fatality rate.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• In a ranking of pedestrian fatality rates among large cities, Dallas came in dead last.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Yet for cyclists and other riders on two wheels, the exact opposite has been true: This year has seen one of the highest fatality rates in 20 years.
  — John Surico, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
• In Mexico, the disease’s fatality rate can be greater than 40%.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2023
• In 2021, the construction fatality rate was two and a half times the national average.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• But critics say there aren't enough finished projects in enough cities to make a significant change to overall fatality rates.
  — Stephen Stock, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Believed to be spread to people from bats, Nipah has a fatality rate in humans of somewhere between 40 and 75 percent.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• That compares with the nearly 30% fatality rate for Nepal’s Annapurna I, one of the world’s most dangerous peaks.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Even more specifically, the middle seats in the back of the aircraft are statistically the safest, with just a 28 percent fatality rate.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• That fatality rate is almost 10 times higher than the typical American job, and the injury rate is almost twice as high.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• The case fatality rate for this illness—spread by ticks and the tissue of infected animals during and after slaughter—is around 30%.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
• The fatality rate of the middle aisle seat is 44 percent, compared to that of the middle rear seat, which is 28 percent, according to an investigation by TIME.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the past five years, Baffert has had a fatality rate lower than most California big-stable trainers.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The disease has a rapid onset, a high fatality rate, and an unpredictable distribution.
  — Jessica Hatcher, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2014
• There are distinct differences between the two, to be sure, including fatality rates.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• Any major injury or fatality rates likely have more to do with the usual risks of swimming, boating, and beer drinking in natural bodies of water.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
• The apps’ payment algorithms pressure them to deliver meals on opposite ends of Manhattan in mere minutes—so the fatality rate has become one of the highest for any job here.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
• Logging workers The fourth-highest job fatality rate was reported for logging workers, who have led the national rankings in some years.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• Whether the billions of dollars in the Purdue settlement and others will have a meaningful impact on addiction and overdose fatality rates remains to be seen.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• The profession's fatality rate is 21 times higher than for the typical American job.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• That gave doctors more time to develop techniques and drugs for treating patients in the brutal period before vaccines helped lower the fatality rate.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024