How to Use life expectancy in a Sentence

life expectancy

noun
  • But life expectancy goes up from there.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Their life expectancy is around three years.
    — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • If the life expectancy is greater than nine years, the long-term rate is used.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 6 June 2021
  • What should the life expectancy of my brake pads and rotors be?
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Well, no one ever said this job came with a long life expectancy.
    — EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The life expectancy of whites might be higher than that of blacks.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Even small changes can have a big impact on your health and life expectancy.
    — Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2026
  • In the wild, their life expectancy is about seven years.
    — Beth Reese Cravey, Florida Times-Union, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Simpson said that in whale terms that means she’s lived past her life expectancy.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, the best guess placed their life expectancy at about 22 years.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 23 June 2021
  • Most bridges built in that era have a life expectancy of about 50 years or more.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 July 2024
  • My mother is now in hospice with a life expectancy of weeks to months.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Most alarming is the steady decline in child health and life expectancy.
    — Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • At the time, Bernie had a life expectancy of less than 18 months.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Two years of declining life expectancy may not prove to be the start of a long-term trend.
    — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • But life expectancy rises with age.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • But life expectancy rises with age.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But life expectancy rises with age.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The pipes have a life expectancy of about 100 years, Keane said.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Even with gains in life expectancy, the sheer size of the cohort will result in a higher death rate.
    — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2021
  • They were built for a different era, when life expectancy was much, much lower.
    — Check Warner Mbe, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, life expectancy is increasing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023
  • For the past two decades, life expectancy in the United States has stalled.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • As longer life expectancy kicks in, so too does the population age.
    — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Their life expectancy in the wild is more difficult to pinpoint.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 28 May 2026
  • Their life expectancy in the wild is more difficult to pinpoint.
    — CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Her doctor’s gave her a life expectancy of two to five years back in 2018.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Our life expectancy has flatlined.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Those roads have a surface life expectancy of around 20 to 25 years.
    — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • But since 1950, global life expectancy has risen by four years each decade.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026

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