How to Use death toll in a Sentence

death toll

noun
  • The death toll mounts from there.
    — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The death toll grew on all sides.
    — Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That brings the death toll to three.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That death toll rose this past week.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That death toll rose this past week.
    — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That death toll rose this past week.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The death toll climbed to eight Monday.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • By Monday, the death toll had climbed again.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The death toll in this post has been updated.
    — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Three have died, bringing the death toll up to 22.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Reuters reported that the death toll had climbed to four.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • So chatbots already have a death toll.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • By daybreak, the death toll was at least thirty-one.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026
  • At the time, human rights groups put the death toll at 11.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • That brought the overall death toll from the storm to at least 82.
    — Jim Gomez and Hau Dinh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • And the death toll continues to rise.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That relief can’t come soon enough, as the death toll has been shocking.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The death toll continues to climb.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But the true death toll will take years—likely more than a decade—to unfold.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The death toll continues to climb.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 26 Dec. 2025
  • There is no accurate death toll in Gaza.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The death toll by the end of that year was 140,000.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This week has seen the death toll continue to rise in Gaza.
    — Tara Suter, The Hill, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The final death toll there was around 1,700.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • And the death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are found.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Some estimate the death toll is more than triple that number.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • Estimates of the death toll range as high as 80.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That death toll is likely to grow, the governor said.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Gaza’s death toll has kept climbing.
    — Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The death toll across all states stands at 235 but is expected to climb.
    — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024

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