How to Use death toll in a Sentence

death toll

noun

• That brought the overall death toll from the storm to at least 82.
  — Jim Gomez and Hau Dinh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• There is more to the stakes of a horror than a death toll.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
• Since the initial news broke, the death toll has increased.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
• The death toll is now 25 for the fires combined, and is expected to rise.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
• The death toll in the Los Angeles wildfires has risen to 24.
  — Escher Walcott, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• Myanmar's junta says the death toll has risen to more than 3,100.
  — Olivia Le Poidevin, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
• The death toll across all states stands at 235 but is expected to climb.
  — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
• But the true death toll will take years—likely more than a decade—to unfold.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But the official death toll has not risen since Aug. 21.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• The encampments started in the past few weeks amid the mounting death toll in Gaza.
  — Avani Kalra, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2024
• 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
• The overall death toll across the Southeast has surpassed 230.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024
• The death toll over the past week has reached 23 protesters killed by police.
  — Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
• Thousands more were missing and the death toll is likely to rise in the coming days.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The death toll stood at 103 Tuesday night but was expected to rise.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 June 2023
• There is no independent source for the death toll in Gaza.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 17 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Saturday's report on the death toll was up two from the day before.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2023
• Hamilton County’s 2022 death toll marked a six-year low.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
• In Michigan, the death toll hovered around 3,000 during those years.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
• The group insists that the war in Gaza—which has outraged Arab public opinion over the high death toll—must first come to an end.
  — Firas Maksad, TIME, 22 June 2024
• At least 55 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, a pace that could exceed last year’s death toll.
  — Aref Tufaha and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2023
• The total death toll in Gaza since Tuesday has risen to 592, according to the health ministry.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
• Flood damage in the city of Derna, where the death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• The overall death toll, however, may not tell the whole story.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Hamas health officials say the death toll has topped 9,400 people.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• People are still dying, adding to the death toll here that is approaching 6,000.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023