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 death rate for Black women was almost three times higher than that for white women.
  — Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, 5 May 2022
• During this time, there was a higher death rate among men (10%) than women (7%).
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 5 Sep. 2024
• Mississippi has the worst Covid-19 death rate in the country.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Mississippi has the highest Covid death rate of any state, and one of the lowest vaccination rates.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2022
• The death rate for monkeypox in areas with high-quality medical care is well below 1% of cases, said Glatt.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• Other research, also led by Frank, links the sudden decline of vultures in India to an increase in human death rates.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
• The population death rate of 21- to 24-year-old males, for example, is four times higher than females of a slightly older age group.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 21 May 2022
• However, another clade, or family of the virus, from West Africa is considered less severe, with a death rate of around 1%.
  — Denise Roland, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• The fetal death rates were highest in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• The city’s death rate from Covid was at one point the highest in the world.
  — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
• The good thing is that the death rate has not increased nearly as much.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• At the same time, the death rate is expected to rise as the baby boomer generation ages.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024