How to Use morbidity in a Sentence

morbidity

noun
  • In turn, this would likely result in weight gain and the return of co-morbidities.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Enfield grinned after the game, when asked for the morbidity of his thoughts in the moment.
    — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Lynch’s scenes are typical of the film’s veering from quirk to morbidity and back again.
    — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The early deaths of his father and his blind younger brother gave him a lifelong morbidity.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Generally, there’s an increase in morbidity for those who sleep less than five or more than nine hours a day.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Women in particular were found to spend less time in the worst morbidity state.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 23 June 2026
  • On the one hand, there is morbidity caused by pollution, and on the other, there is no money to treat the ailments.
    — S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The borough has the highest rates of child asthma and asthma morbidity in the country.
    — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • However, when the flowers die, the seed pods look like tiny human skulls, adding a touch of morbidity to your garden.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • These public health issues are the root causes of massive amounts of disease and morbidity.
    — Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Enter Bronfman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 11 May 2018
  • But the form still has a tinge of kitsch, its extravagant morbidity shading into camp or humor.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
  • On the other hand, people with co-morbidities like heart problems, etc, who would anyway die are cases of unavoidable deaths.
    — Arunabh Saikia, Quartz India, 23 Mar. 2020
  • And as a degree of morbidity and mortality, that still is my major concern.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024
  • But the nuance of socioeconomics can’t hold a candle to the terror of morbidity.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018
  • This leads to a decrease in morbidity and mortality.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The morbidity rate for Black newborns is higher than everybody else’s.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Statewide morbidity data would provide us with a window into the conditions that could teeter into tragedy.
    — Antonio Reynoso, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2017
  • In the past, the state’s maternal morbidity reports have been revised after their release.
    — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • One of the reasons for that is the main focus of the studies has been on mortality from heat waves, and there hasn't been that much focus on morbidity.
    — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 23 July 2010
  • Levels of morbidity and injuries and all of those other things all are taken into account by that single number.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 10 Oct. 2021
  • But other signs suggest that Mexicans’ fondness for morbidity is alive and well.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But one of the clear signals that seems to come through is that there is an age trajectory of morbidity and mortality that’s very striking.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Maternal morbidity is the term used to describe short- or long-term health problems that result from pregnancy.
    — Heidi Fantasia, The Conversation, 21 June 2023
  • And that's usually a bad sign for morbidity and mortality.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Many pediatricians are overwhelmed by seeing so many children with morbidities that were far less prevalent a couple decades ago.
    — Sandy Bauers, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But the impact of hurricanes on health is not captured in the mortality and morbidity numbers in the days after the rain.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2017
  • But the report’s data on morbidity — the rate of disease and injury — tells a story playing out in our own parks, libraries and transit stations.
    — Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Deliveries before 23 weeks have a five to six percent survival rate and high morbidity among survivors.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024

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