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 is as high as fifty per cent.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • The death rate is now higher than the birth rate.
    — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 8 May 2026
  • Oil rigs work are among jobs with some of the highest death rates.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • What is most scary about Nipah is its death rate.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The rate is four times higher than the overall death rate.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026
  • Still, in the case of pups, that’s four times higher than last year’s death rates.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The good thing is that the death rate has not increased nearly as much.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The city’s death rate from Covid was at one point the highest in the world.
    — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But for the first time in decades, overdose death rates are starting to trend down.
    — Grey Gardner, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The hope is that being tested will lead to a lower death rate.
    — David Carr, STAT, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The country’s death rate from Covid seems to have plateaued — at least somewhat.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The average death rate is about 50%.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • 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
  • Their deaths rates per million are a tiny fraction of the US death rate.
    — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Adults older than 20, on the other hand, had the lowest death rate.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026
  • Once again, death rates were higher among those who scored lower on the sit-to-stand test, and vice versa.
    — Jennifer Klump, Verywell Health, 28 May 2026
  • When left untreated, the disease has a death rate of 97%.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 21 May 2026
  • Higher death rates Rose’s story is not an anomaly.
    — Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Their model found the daily death rate could have climbed as high as 4,500.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • One area had a concentrated death rate of 97%.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • Yet even as the death rate climbs, improving healthcare in jails has proven difficult.
    — Nichole Manna, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • For Black Chicagoans, the death rate was approaching triple the rate of white Chicagoans.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Sacramento has some of the worst traffic death rates in the state, and Northgate is one of the worst streets.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And a higher death rate in girls could reflect reductions in death in boys, not greater harm to girls from the vaccine.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025

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