How to Use mortality in a Sentence
mortality
noun-
The bassist was forced to face his own mortality, and so were his bandmates.
—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
-
Ohio has had among the worst infant mortality rates in the United States for the past few years.
—cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
-
Bosa has been slapped in the face, over and over, by his football mortality.
—Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
-
The Omicron surge there peaked in March with a daily mortality rate of 37.7 per million, one of the highest in the world.
—Isabel Hilton, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
-
The songs consist of themes ranging from climate change to wartime to fear of mortality.
—Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
-
The stakes are much lower, mortality-wise, but the agita is high.
—Dan Zak, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
-
Even over the last 24 hours, Thompson has had to confront his NBA mortality again.
—Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
-
And in this final season, that flavor of mortality is the show’s top note.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
-
The push to finally start the project came from a tragic reminder of his own mortality in 2015.
—Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 25 Dec. 2022
-
In fact, the link between wealth and mortality may be stronger in the US than in any other high-income country.
—ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
-
The mortality rate for Cronobacter meningitis may be as high as 40%, the CDC said.
—Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
-
The infant mortality rate for them last year was 6.3, so that’s almost.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022
-
Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world.
—Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
-
Pearl discussed how Leach’s death forces him to face his mortality.
—al, 13 Dec. 2022
-
The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
—Brittany Shammas and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
-
The prospects of a state committee that was formed to study maternal mortality are also up in the air.
—Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
-
One study that looked at fawn mortality in the absence of predators noted that fawns still found plenty of ways to die.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
-
Good writing is born of mortality: the limits of our body and perspectives—the limits of our very lives.
—Rachel Khong, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2024
-
The change in 2020 was greatest among Black people, who have long had the highest mortality rates for these diseases.
—Betsy McKay, wsj.com, 23 Mar. 2022
-
Lots of the items on his list jibe with the ideas at the time: cardiovascular health, cancer mortality, stroke.
—Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
-
And in the study, neonatal mortality among Black mothers was 0.5% in the spontaneous conception group and 1.6% in the IVF group.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
-
Accept your mortality and try to leave this life with inner peace.
—Jack Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
-
Rather, the suspense is over how — and whether — the narrator is going to confront his and Earl’s mortality.
—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
-
Less fight time means less chance of injury or mortality.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022
-
And beyond thinking of your own mortality, the real fear is the thought of losing loved ones and having to learn how to live on without them.
—Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
-
In the bitter and bloody battles in the trenches of eastern Ukraine, a soldier's own mortality is unescapable.
—Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 May 2023
-
Central obesity can lead to mortality and disease risk, and the waist-to-hip ratio can shed light on that risk.
—Suzie Glassman, Health.com, 11 Feb. 2022
-
So far, those findings are grim: mortality in Alder Creek Grove is near 100 percent.
—Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
-
Venis seems unable to connect with his son; Jeff is wracked with a guilty conscience; Randall is terrified of his looming mortality; and Souper just wants to be loved.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
-
The statistics paint a sobering picture of young adult mortality.
—Charell G. Coleman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'mortality.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: