How to Use expectancy in a Sentence

expectancy

noun

• Life expectancy at birth is 85 years, the highest in the world.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• Life expectancy for men dropped a full year, from about 74 years to 73.
  — Mike Stobbe, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
• The life-expectancy gap has closed, the air is cleaner, the buildings smarter.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Either man could have clicked a few times to see the Dodgers’ win expectancy.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Life expectancy was short for a fighting man at the time.
  — Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
• Denver: Life expectancy in the state dropped for the second straight year in 2021.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• Life expectancy in those groups now stands at 65 years.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 2 Sep. 2022
• The Astros’ win expectancy, up 6-2 with six outs left, was at 97%.
  — James Yasko, Chron, 11 Oct. 2021
• Life expectancy in the U.S. has been increasing since the 1980s.
  — Charlene Wehring, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• But the life-expectancy payout method wouldn’t be available for such a trust, Ms. Choate notes.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• Life expectancy in Afghanistan today is a mere 48 years.
  — Abdulkader Sinno, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2021
• Here’s the good news: More black people are going to college, and black life expectancy is on the rise, the report points out.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• Life expectancy: The US trailed high-income countries for a decade.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
• Jan Oblak is one name that has been linked with United for the last few years already in the expectancy that De Gea will one day move on.
  — SI.com, 10 June 2019
• Marginalize the starting pitcher, turn the firemen loose and watch the win expectancy rise.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• Life expectancy in Mozambique is only 55 years, compared to 79 years in the US.
  — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2020
• Michigan ranks 30th out of the 50 states for life expectancy, a new analysis shows.
  — Annalise Frank, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
• For the first time since the early 1990s, life-expectancy is actually dropping for many groups in the U.S.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2022
• Find your age in the table and the adjacent life-expectancy figure.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 5 May 2017
• Clearly, things such as a good life expectancy, social support and trust are good for us.
  — Sam Wren-Lewis, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
• But here, the expectancy interest of the artists could take some unusual forms.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 19 June 2019
• The teams of Alaskan huskies soon settle into a steady trot and surge forward with expectancy into the primeval wilderness ahead.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Feb. 2020
• The sellers are at purchase on average 78 years old with a life expectancy of 12 years.
  — Jonas Cho Walsgard, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
• Adult life expectancy is well below the OECD average, at 64 years for men and 76 for women.
  — Eduardo J. Gómez, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2014