body count
noun
1
: a count of the bodies of killed enemy soldiers
2
: the number of persons involved in a particular activity
Examples of body count in a Sentence
The rising body count fueled opposition to the war.
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Keeping my body count low was insurance.
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
Las Vegas would shatter our grisly, record body count just a year later.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
And Lestat, despite it all, is a lover, not a killer, notwithstanding his human-body count of hundreds, in both senses of the phrase.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 June 2026
In the end, however, what may push blood filtration into the Ebola treatment toolkit is not an engineering advance but a body count.
—Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2026
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
Las Vegas would shatter our grisly, record body count just a year later.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
And Lestat, despite it all, is a lover, not a killer, notwithstanding his human-body count of hundreds, in both senses of the phrase.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 June 2026
In the end, however, what may push blood filtration into the Ebola treatment toolkit is not an engineering advance but a body count.
—Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for body count
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“Body count.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20count. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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