How to Use fatality in a Sentence

fatality

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  • The car crash caused one fatality and several serious injuries.
  • The death marks the fifth fire fatality in the city this year.
    — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The two deaths are the first two fire fatalities of 2025 in St. Paul.
    — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
  • 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 high-speed trains now have the worst per-mile fatality rate in the country.
    — Natalia Galicza, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2022
  • This is the park's second fatality in the park this month.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
  • 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
  • The state was one of the first overwhelmed by fentanyl fatalities – no one can say why for sure – and is now among the first seeing the wave of deaths ebb.
    — Maurice Tamman, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The patrol said the fourth fatality was aboard the Southwest Chief train, as were two others who died.
    — Charlie Riedel and, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
  • 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
  • The death of the man, who has yet to be named, marks the first construction fatality for Metro in 10 years, according to the agency.
    — Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The city saw an uptick in car crashes but not a major change, and crash fatalities in the city are on track to be lower this year than last.
    — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Officers were on the scene of a shooting with one fatality in the 2400 block of Alicia Court, the post stated.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The incident is the first fatality at the Bend Whitewater Park, which opened in 2015.
    — Michael Krohn, oregonlive, 3 May 2022
  • 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 Congo Basin strain has a fatality rate of 10 percent.
    — Wired, 28 July 2022
  • 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
  • It is believed to have a case fatality rate of under 1% and maybe lower.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022
  • His death marks the second fatality in Department of Correction custody this year.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The Kansas City Police Department bomb and arson squad will investigate due to the fatality.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2025

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