How to Use life expectancy in a Sentence

life expectancy

noun

• At the end, my life expectancy flashed on the screen: 50.3.
  — Maria Yogoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024
• Most bridges built in that era have a life expectancy of about 50 years or more.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 July 2024
• Two years of declining life expectancy may not prove to be the start of a long-term trend.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
• The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 for men and 81 for women.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2024
• At about 76, the U.S. life expectancy, the adult will probably die from one of these diseases.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• But by 2022, most of the world was back on the upward path, pushing life expectancy to a new global high.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Simpson said that in whale terms that means she’s lived past her life expectancy.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• The life expectancy of Ohioans rivals that of Slovakia.
  — Phil Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024
• This decline marks the largest decrease in life expectancy since 1923, according to the CDC.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 1 Apr. 2023
• The average life expectancy for a woman in the United States is 77.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Here are some highlights: Women in the U.S. have the lowest life expectancy and the highest rate of avoidable deaths.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
• Many journalists have examined life expectancy over the years, but not with the sweep of the Post series.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
• Over the last decade, women's healthy life expectancy has declined by five years and men's by close to three years, according to the study.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 June 2023
• Monaco is said to average about 300 days of sunshine a year, and has a life expectancy that ranks among the highest in the world.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
• The Post spent the past year examining U.S. life expectancy.
  — Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• For American men, life expectancy fell by more than eight months, and for women the loss was about seven months, the study found.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• For Black males, the average life expectancy is only 81 — two years short of the white male cohort.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• Charted: How life expectancy is changing around the world.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• People with the disease have a life expectancy that’s more than two decades shorter than the rest of the US population.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
• As a result, there is a small, decreased life expectancy in people with MGUS.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
• Sleep this way to add years to your life These sleep habits added nearly five years to a man’s life expectancy and almost 2.5 years to a woman’s life, a new study found.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• With her type of cancer, life expectancy is often measured in months rather than years.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
• Over time, the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has increased.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• In the last 10 years, the UK generally had the second-lowest life expectancy.
  — New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2024
• Wild cottontails can live up to five years, but the average life expectancy for those that are old enough to leave the nest is only around 11 months.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2024
• The country has long struggled with low birth rates and long life expectancy, and has seen the number of deaths outnumber births in recent years.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• What is the life expectancy of someone with uterine cancer?
  — Jenny McCoy, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
• This year’s life expectancy figure is 0.9 years lower than last year’s.
  — Kate Sheridan, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022
• Average life expectancy in those groups was shortened by four years in 2020 alone.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Luke was 17, which is the median life expectancy for African lions in human care.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024