How to Use morbidity in a Sentence

morbidity

noun

• Enfield grinned after the game, when asked for the morbidity of his thoughts in the moment.
  — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
• The morbidity rate in that area is also among the highest.
  — Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020
• Enter Bronfman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 11 May 2018
• Lynch’s scenes are typical of the film’s veering from quirk to morbidity and back again.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
• On the one hand, there is morbidity caused by pollution, and on the other, there is no money to treat the ailments.
  — S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 20 Jan. 2020
• The borough has the highest rates of child asthma and asthma morbidity in the country.
  — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
• However, when the flowers die, the seed pods look like tiny human skulls, adding a touch of morbidity to your garden.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2022
• The early deaths of his father and his blind younger brother gave him a lifelong morbidity.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• One of the reasons for that is the main focus of the studies has been on mortality from heat waves, and there hasn't been that much focus on morbidity.
  — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 23 July 2010
• But the nuance of socioeconomics can’t hold a candle to the terror of morbidity.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018
• But the impact of hurricanes on health is not captured in the mortality and morbidity numbers in the days after the rain.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2017
• The Times found that 50% of unsheltered people had two disabilities at the same time and 26% had three all at once — a condition known as tri-morbidity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• On the other hand, people with co-morbidities like heart problems, etc, who would anyway die are cases of unavoidable deaths.
  — Arunabh Saikia, Quartz India, 23 Mar. 2020
• But one of the clear signals that seems to come through is that there is an age trajectory of morbidity and mortality that’s very striking.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
• Preterm infants are those born after less than 37 weeks of gestation and are at high risk for morbidity and mortality, the FDA notes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2023
• But the form still has a tinge of kitsch, its extravagant morbidity shading into camp or humor.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2017
• In the past, the state’s maternal morbidity reports have been revised after their release.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• Over the course of four hours, the body examined maternal mortality and morbidity through the lens of Black women, men and their families.
  — Donna M. Owens, Essence, 11 May 2021
• And as a degree of morbidity and mortality, that still is my major concern.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• The morbidity rate for Black newborns is higher than everybody else’s.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
• According to the study, the odds of major morbidity dropped by 3% for patients in those settings compared with hospitals that had fewer women in those roles.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 May 2024
• And the tab will likely be far higher than the coronavirus death count and the post-viral fatigue and morbidity of stricken but recovering patients.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• Levels of morbidity and injuries and all of those other things all are taken into account by that single number.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 10 Oct. 2021
• Maternal morbidity is the term used to describe short- or long-term health problems that result from pregnancy.
  — Heidi Fantasia, The Conversation, 21 June 2023
• With coronavirus cases climbing steeply at the beginning of the country’s flu season, many people rushed to clinics to get flu shots, hoping to avoid at least one co-morbidity.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• So how to account for his film version, one without menace or shadows or the voluptuous morbidity that’s the hallmark of gothic melodrama?
  — Charles Taylor, Newsweek, 7 June 2017
• But other signs suggest that Mexicans’ fondness for morbidity is alive and well.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• For those under 30, the risks of serious morbidity and mortality are close to zero.
  — Aaron Kheriaty and Gerard V. Bradley, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• Nor is there a standardized approach to looking at mistakes, such as the morbidity and mortality reviews commonplace in medicine.
  — Timothy F. Geithner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2016

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024