Example sentences for: deaths

How can you use “deaths” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Malaria, for example, currently affects about 500 million people and causes about 3,000 deaths a day—mostly in sub-Saharan Africa [1].

  • The tip-off is that he notes (in the seventh paragraph) that there are "21 such shootings annually"--not too statistically significant, given that there are nearly 20,000 gun deaths per year.

  • In the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, malaria causes 300 million acute illnesses and at least 1 million deaths annually.

  • Interestingly, the city's deaths and power outages came "despite a citywide emergency plan" that was implemented after an even worse heat wave in 1995, and despite the fact that forecasts "accurately predicted record-scraping temperatures" (this again, according to the Tribune ).

  • USAT emphasizes Floyd's nationwide toll, favoring numbers to do so: One million people in New Jersey ordered by authorities to boil their tap water; total damages possibly as high as Andrew's $26.5 billion, the U.S. record; 62 deaths in 12 states and one in the Bahamas.


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