How to Use mortality in a Sentence

mortality

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  • The bassist was forced to face his own mortality, and so were his bandmates.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The songs consist of themes ranging from climate change to wartime to fear of mortality.
    — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Even over the last 24 hours, Thompson has had to confront his NBA mortality again.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And in this final season, that flavor of mortality is the show’s top note.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
  • In the bitter and bloody battles in the trenches of eastern Ukraine, a soldier's own mortality is unescapable.
    — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • But the rate of all-cause excess mortality does not suggest that Sweden fared worse than its neighbors.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • There is a new restraint in her cooking, and possibly a sense of mortality.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • For all this, however, some elves saw fit to choose mortality.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Much of the nearly three-hour show was the usual rave-up bombast, but something new was here: an uneasy embrace of mortality.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Those who adopted eight healthy habits saw a 13% reduction in mortality compared to those who did not.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 July 2023
  • In terms of cancer mortality, the overall data on cancer deaths is holding steady—a good sign.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Glimpsing our older faces could be a scary reminder of our own mortality.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, even a comedy by Bergman is going to be shadowed to an extent by mortality.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • In almost all of the recent studies of step counts and mortality, the intensity of the steps, meaning how fast people walked, didn’t seem to matter much.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • So in addition to the outright mortality caused by weather, a year’s fawn crop can also be smaller.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Over the last few years, his attention has turned to his own mortality, in a way that’s free of the hope-I-die-before-I-get-old mythology but still cast in his usual rock n’ roll terms.
    — Robert Levine, Billboard, 17 July 2023
  • Homeless mortality experts agreed that there needs to be a more standardized way of tracking the deaths of unhoused people.
    — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
  • The emotion and experience of the [performance] tells the story of his illness, his thoughts on mortality, and his thoughts on music.
    — Michelle Hyun Kim, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Was turning 50 the spark that inspired his turn toward mortality?
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • There is no way to know what the firearm mortality or injury rate would be today had there been more federal support for strategies to contain it.
    — Christine Spolar, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Although the unusual mortality event is not over, the state ended the supplemental feeding program at the end of 2023.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In another episode, Todd comes to terms with his mortality by holding a fake funeral — casket and all.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the maternal mortalities in Texas occurred in the months after childbirth, and most were preventable, according to state analysis of the deaths.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • The film also captures the passing of the torch between generations and the consciousness of mortality.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The mortality of a child can also be a part of the natural world, and the Stoicism that Bissell channels so beautifully must confront even that.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • The state Department of Agriculture hasn't yet determined the scope of pine mortality.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2023
  • Lonely people, as Murthy’s report warns, run the same mortality risk as people who smoke 15 cigarettes a day.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The research asserts that these issues likely play a role in the persistence of poor health and higher mortality in the community.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The researchers looked at the daily number of step counts and their relationship to all-cause mortality (the risk of dying from all causes) and other factors.
    — Good Housekeeping, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Even more worrying, one study linked the reduction in home cooling to a rise in mortality among older people from heatstroke.
    — Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023

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