How to Use mortality in a Sentence

mortality

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  • The bassist was forced to face his own mortality, and so were his bandmates.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The infant mortality rate for them last year was 6.3, so that’s almost.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the rate of all-cause excess mortality does not suggest that Sweden fared worse than its neighbors.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • There is a new restraint in her cooking, and possibly a sense of mortality.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • For all this, however, some elves saw fit to choose mortality.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The serious illness of someone close to us does arouse our deepest fears and thoughts of mortality.
    — Rabbi Bert Kieffer, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Much of the nearly three-hour show was the usual rave-up bombast, but something new was here: an uneasy embrace of mortality.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Those who adopted eight healthy habits saw a 13% reduction in mortality compared to those who did not.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, our guys are grappling with their own mortality and PTSD.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • In terms of cancer mortality, the overall data on cancer deaths is holding steady—a good sign.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Therein lies the true purpose of the crypt: to make people comfortable with mortality.
    — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Glimpsing our older faces could be a scary reminder of our own mortality.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, even a comedy by Bergman is going to be shadowed to an extent by mortality.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • He's reminded of his mortality when he's found guilty for his crimes, and a bomb detonates just outside the Gotham courthouse.
    — EW.com, 5 Oct. 2024
  • What else needs to be done to address the maternal mortality crisis?
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Even before the war, Sudan was a dangerous place to be a pregnant woman, with one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world.
    — An Anonymous Contributor, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
  • In almost all of the recent studies of step counts and mortality, the intensity of the steps, meaning how fast people walked, didn’t seem to matter much.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • The octopus, the elephant, the great horned owl, the house cat, the giant tortoise, the chimpanzee: who, in all the vast animal kingdom, joins us in having intimations of mortality?
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

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