How to Use life expectancy in a Sentence

life expectancy

noun

• At the end, my life expectancy flashed on the screen: 50.3.
  — Maria Yogoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024
• For the past two decades, life expectancy in the United States has stalled.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• Most bridges built in that era have a life expectancy of about 50 years or more.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 July 2024
• Two years of declining life expectancy may not prove to be the start of a long-term trend.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
• The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 for men and 81 for women.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2024
• At about 76, the U.S. life expectancy, the adult will probably die from one of these diseases.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• But by 2022, most of the world was back on the upward path, pushing life expectancy to a new global high.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Simpson said that in whale terms that means she’s lived past her life expectancy.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• The life expectancy of Ohioans rivals that of Slovakia.
  — Phil Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024
• This is similar to the overall life expectancy of 77 for those in the United States.
  — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Rn-Bc, Health, 24 Sep. 2024
• The younger the victims, the more years of life that were taken from them — and that means a bigger hit to average life expectancy.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• The pup had long surpassed the average life expectancy of a chihuahua, 12 to 18 years.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
• This decline marks the largest decrease in life expectancy since 1923, according to the CDC.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 1 Apr. 2023
• The average life expectancy for a woman in the United States is 77.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Here are some highlights: Women in the U.S. have the lowest life expectancy and the highest rate of avoidable deaths.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
• Those with severe cases have a life expectancy of about forty-five years.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
• Many journalists have examined life expectancy over the years, but not with the sweep of the Post series.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
• Over the last decade, women's healthy life expectancy has declined by five years and men's by close to three years, according to the study.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 June 2023
• Monaco is said to average about 300 days of sunshine a year, and has a life expectancy that ranks among the highest in the world.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• The Post spent the past year examining U.S. life expectancy.
  — Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• For American men, life expectancy fell by more than eight months, and for women the loss was about seven months, the study found.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• For Black males, the average life expectancy is only 81 — two years short of the white male cohort.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Hospice care requires that a person have a life expectancy of six months or less.
  — John Mulder, STAT, 3 July 2022
• Charted: How life expectancy is changing around the world.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• What is the life expectancy of a person with hemochromatosis?
  — Sarah Jividen, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
• The average life expectancy for a person with MS is 76 years old.
  — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Rn-Bc, Health, 24 Sep. 2024
• The maximum life expectancy for a brown recluse is a maximum of four years.
  — al, 28 June 2022
• In the wild, a chimpanzee’s typical life expectancy is about 33 years.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2022
• Of course rural workers, whose real wages and life expectancies keep falling, are not mourning the death of the free-market consensus.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
• Grinding a spice, however, takes off its life expectancy by about a year, according to McCormick & Co. Spices like ground ginger, cumin, paprika and chili powder have a shelf life of about two to four years, the website said.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024