death toll

noun

: the number of people who die in an accident, disaster, war, etc.

Three people who were injured in the accident have died, pushing the death toll up to 116.

The virus's death toll is expected to rise.

Examples of death toll in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected the year that pipe was laid, and the Germans attacked the French in the World War I Battle of Verdun, with the death toll topping 700,000. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

The government said 500 people were killed but the opposition said the death toll was in the thousands. — ABC News, 25 July 2026

The official death toll was over 5,300 as of Thursday, but tens of thousands remain missing. — Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

At least seven more bodies were recovered from the tunnel of an under-construction hydroelectric project in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim, the state government said Thursday, bringing the death toll from a blast to 22. — Reuters, NBC news, 23 July 2026

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