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.
  • There weren’t always differences in the breast cancer death rates between Black and white women.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hong Kong’s health system and morgues have been under pressure from the record outbreak that’s pushed its death rate to one of the highest in the world.
    Time, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The disease there has become endemic, with a death rate as high as 10%.
    Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2022
  • During this time, there was a higher death rate among men (10%) than women (7%).
    Sarah Garone, Health, 5 Sep. 2024

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