How to Use death toll in a Sentence
death toll
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That brought the overall death toll from the storm to at least 82.
—Jim Gomez and Hau Dinh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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There is more to the stakes of a horror than a death toll.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
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Since the initial news broke, the death toll has increased.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
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The remains found on Wednesday raised the death toll of the Eaton fire to 18 people.
—Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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The death toll is now 25 for the fires combined, and is expected to rise.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
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The death toll in the Los Angeles wildfires has risen to 24.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Myanmar's junta says the death toll has risen to more than 3,100.
—Olivia Le Poidevin, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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The death toll across all states stands at 235 but is expected to climb.
—Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
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But the true death toll will take years—likely more than a decade—to unfold.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
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And the death toll of U.S. citizens rose to 30, with 13 still missing.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2023
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But the official death toll has not risen since Aug. 21.
—Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
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The encampments started in the past few weeks amid the mounting death toll in Gaza.
—Avani Kalra, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2024
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The death toll is likely to rise, according to Beshear.
—CBS News, 17 May 2025
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The death toll of the Maui fires, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, now stands at 114 people.
—Paola Rosa-Aquino, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2023
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The overall death toll across the Southeast has surpassed 230.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024
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The death toll over the past week has reached 23 protesters killed by police.
—Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
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Thousands more were missing and the death toll is likely to rise in the coming days.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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Amid the chaos, the state shut down the hunt five days early, fearful that the death toll would soar past the harvest limit of 320.
—Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 May 2025
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In Tennessee, the statewide death toll rose to 15 on Sunday, with three deaths in the city of Memphis alone.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
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The death toll stood at 103 Tuesday night but was expected to rise.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 14 June 2023
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There is no independent source for the death toll in Gaza.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 17 May 2024
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The death toll from the incident rose to 221 on Thursday, Méndez said.
—Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
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As flu season comes to an end, the death toll in North Carolina from the virus is nearing 250.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2025
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The government said hundreds of people were killed in the clash, but others put the death toll in the thousands.
—Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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The official death toll stands at just 31, but many thousands are thought to have died over the years as a result.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Saturday's report on the death toll was up two from the day before.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2023
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Hamilton County’s 2022 death toll marked a six-year low.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
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In Michigan, the death toll hovered around 3,000 during those years.
—Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
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There appears to be no off-ramp yet, as the destruction and death toll mount in both countries.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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Kronen Zeitung newspaper said the death toll was at least eight and that at least 10 others had been seriously injured.
—USA Today, 11 June 2025
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