How to Use death rate in a Sentence

death rate

noun

• Lung cancer death rates are up.
• The death rate from accidents is rising.
• There was a decline in the country's death rate after its health care improved.
• The city’s death rate from Covid was at one point the highest in the world.
  — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
• The virus still has a death rate of 1.6% in the U.S. — roughly 16 times greater than the flu.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 17 Dec. 2021
• The good thing is that the death rate has not increased nearly as much.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• For Black Chicagoans, the death rate was approaching triple the rate of white Chicagoans.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2022
• Biden’s goal is to have the cancer death rate be cut by at least half by 2047.
  — The National Desk, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
• The death rate for Blacks and Hispanics has been twice that for whites.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2022
• When the surge subsided, the Black death rate once again dropped below the White rate.
  — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• The country’s death rate from Covid seems to have plateaued — at least somewhat.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2023
• The death rate is more than twice that of Latino, Asian and white babies, the report showed.
  — Eleanore Catolico, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
• And statewide, the asthma death rate for Black patients in 2020 was five times that of white patients.
  — Talis Shelbourne, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• The death rates on the job by race are in stark contrast with the racial breakdown of the American workforce.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
• Deaths spiraled and Hong Kong soon had the highest death rate in the world, surpassing the US’s worst day.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2022
• But in recent years, the CCF has made some progress in reducing the cheetah death rate.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
• The research ranked Wisconsin 23rd in its strength of gun laws, while its gun death rate ranked 15th .
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• Mama Glow aims to raise awareness about the high death rate of Black mothers and find ways to bring it down.
  — Pamela Kirkland, CNN, 25 June 2023
• As of today, the jails are a couple deaths away from having the highest death rate in at least 15 years.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• The death rate fell to 4% the following month, still far higher than the five-year average.
  — Dasha Afanasieva, Fortune Europe, 21 Jan. 2024
• Despite a death rate that reached 50% in some years, the English decided to stay.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• Most were killed in the West Bank during Israeli military raids — one of the highest death rates in the last decade and a half.
  — Patrick Kingsley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Covid death rate, just one-twelfth of that in the United States, is the lowest among the world’s wealthiest nations.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2022
• Mississippi has the worst Covid-19 death rate in the country.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• The Netherlands and Slovakia, in particular, saw a 20% rise in their road death rate over the decade.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2024
• Mild cases may have been missed, inflating the death rate.
  — Sam Ogozalek, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• Their neighbors in the other state were among the least healthy, with annual death rates that were 40% to 50% higher.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• According to the Cleveland Clinic, the death rate for bird flu in humans is over 50%.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
• Perhaps most striking was a 19% lower death rate from any cause.
  — Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
• The death rate can be as high as 88%, according to the World Health Organization.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024