How to Use mortality in a Sentence

mortality

noun

• The bassist was forced to face his own mortality, and so were his bandmates.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Omicron surge there peaked in March with a daily mortality rate of 37.7 per million, one of the highest in the world.
  — Isabel Hilton, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
• The songs consist of themes ranging from climate change to wartime to fear of mortality.
  — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Even over the last 24 hours, Thompson has had to confront his NBA mortality again.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• And in this final season, that flavor of mortality is the show’s top note.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
• The push to finally start the project came from a tragic reminder of his own mortality in 2015.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
• The infant mortality rate for them last year was 6.3, so that’s almost.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022
• Pearl discussed how Leach’s death forces him to face his mortality.
  — al, 13 Dec. 2022
• The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
  — Brittany Shammas and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• One study that looked at fawn mortality in the absence of predators noted that fawns still found plenty of ways to die.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
• Good writing is born of mortality: the limits of our body and perspectives—the limits of our very lives.
  — Rachel Khong, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2024
• And in the study, neonatal mortality among Black mothers was 0.5% in the spontaneous conception group and 1.6% in the IVF group.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
• Accept your mortality and try to leave this life with inner peace.
  — Jack Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• And beyond thinking of your own mortality, the real fear is the thought of losing loved ones and having to learn how to live on without them.
  — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• In the bitter and bloody battles in the trenches of eastern Ukraine, a soldier's own mortality is unescapable.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• By the 1980s, Karakalpakstan suffered from some of the worst cancer and infant mortality rates in the Soviet Union.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• But the rate of all-cause excess mortality does not suggest that Sweden fared worse than its neighbors.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• There is a new restraint in her cooking, and possibly a sense of mortality.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• For all this, however, some elves saw fit to choose mortality.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• The serious illness of someone close to us does arouse our deepest fears and thoughts of mortality.
  — Rabbi Bert Kieffer, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• Much of the nearly three-hour show was the usual rave-up bombast, but something new was here: an uneasy embrace of mortality.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
• Those who adopted eight healthy habits saw a 13% reduction in mortality compared to those who did not.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 July 2023
• Meanwhile, our guys are grappling with their own mortality and PTSD.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
• In terms of cancer mortality, the overall data on cancer deaths is holding steady—a good sign.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 30 Jan. 2024
• Therein lies the true purpose of the crypt: to make people comfortable with mortality.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• Glimpsing our older faces could be a scary reminder of our own mortality.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Of course, even a comedy by Bergman is going to be shadowed to an extent by mortality.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Whaley wants to tackle Ohio's high Black infant mortality and racial wealth gap.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 11 Oct. 2022
• Human reproduction appears to have finally caught up with the low levels of infant and child mortality that thankfully now characterize most of the world.
  — Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
• The back-to-back years of unprecedented mortality were caused primarily by starvation, but recent years have seen manatees recovering slowly.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024