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 remains found on Wednesday raised the death toll of the Eaton fire to 18 people.
  — Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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 is likely to rise, according to Beshear.
  — CBS News, 17 May 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The death toll from the incident rose to 221 on Thursday, Méndez said.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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 death toll has since reached 104 statewide since flood waters rose and ravaged Texas Hill Country over the holiday weekend.
  — Jillian Frankel, People.com, 8 July 2025
• The petition comes as the death toll from the floods has risen to at least 120, while search and rescue teams and volunteers desperately scour for bodies.
  — Terry Collins, USA Today, 11 July 2025