How to Use nonfatal in a Sentence

nonfatal

adjective
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  • The man was the 23rd victim of a nonfatal shooting in the city this year, Boisvert said.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • No charges will be filed over the nonfatal shooting of Souza.
    — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The number of nonfatal shootings this year is 264, two less than from the same time a year ago.
    — Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • The city broke its homicide record for the third year in a row and nonfatal shootings stayed flat from the year before.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • As of last month, homicides were up 23% from the same time last year and nonfatal shootings were up 50%.
    — USA Today, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The nonfatal shooting they are being charged with was in March 2021.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2022
  • In the first three months of 2022, both fatal and nonfatal shootings were down in Chicago.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In Hyde Park, there have been 11 nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In the first five months of the year, homicides were up 27 percent, and nonfatal shootings were up 44 percent.
    — Marin Cogan, Vox, 1 May 2024
  • The rate of nonfatal illness and injury ranked 216th. 7.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And the numbers of nonfatal shootings in Santa Fe don’t appear to have changed much.
    — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The city has also seen over 400 nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Of those, Florida accounted for 16 bites, all nonfatal, among the 41 in the U.S.
    — Freida Frisaro, ajc, 29 June 2023
  • Last year, 80 children and teens were the victims of nonfatal shootings.
    — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The 21-year-old man was in the hospital Friday with nonfatal injuries.
    — Dessi Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2020
  • So far in 2020, nine women have been charged in nonfatal shootings, more than double the number from last year.
    — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Louisville saw a record year of violence in 2020 and is on track to beat last year's totals for homicides and nonfatal shootings.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 18 June 2021
  • Last year, at least nine women were charged in nonfatal shootings, more than double the number in 2019.
    — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2021
  • Within a three week span there was a nonfatal shooting, a stabbing and a rape at gunpoint, all in the downtown Towson area.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Norwalk virus, a nonfatal pathogen marked by vomiting and diarrhea, was named for the Ohio city in which the first outbreak occurred in 1968.
    — Sally Satel, National Review, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Sports' Irons was 16 years old when he was arrested for a nonfatal shooting.
    — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
  • The number of nonfatal shootings in the capital city this year now exceeds 35.
    — Christine Dempsey, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The camp has been the scene of other violence over the past few years, including homicides and nonfatal shootings.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • But the court said SB1437, which took effect after Gentile’s guilty plea, would clear him of a murder charge that was based on his nonfatal fight with Saavedra.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • That would have been enough, under a 2005 Alaska law, to charge him with a felony for nonfatal strangulation.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2023
  • That was the most nonfatal shooting victims in that age group in a year reported by the dashboard, which has data going back to 2012.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Three months after shooting Maggie and Paul, Alex Murdaugh was found in his car with a nonfatal gunshot wound to his head.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The drug has been a major driver of fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the US as well as the opioid epidemic.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The two adults suffered nonfatal injuries and were transported to HCMC.
    — Patrick Kennedy, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • No children were aboard the school bus at the time; the 72-year-old school bus driver had just dropped off the passengers, and was taken to a hospital with nonfatal injuries.
    — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2024

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