How to Use mortality in a Sentence

mortality

noun
  • This is a guy who sees his mortality coming at him fast.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • And your fear of mortality changes too.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • But one year of high mortality or low birth rates could set the program back.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
  • The bassist was forced to face his own mortality, and so were his bandmates.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Bosa has been slapped in the face, over and over, by his football mortality.
    — Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Charles has, of course, been dealing with his own mortality of late.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The world cut child mortality in half, in just 25 years.
    — Bill Gates, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Few of us view mortality as a major cost of taking such a drive.
    — Casey B. Mulligan, National Review, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Did facing your mortality change you in any way?
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Accept your mortality and try to leave this life with inner peace.
    — Jack Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Brooks has sometimes made mortality a joke, too.
    — ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • There is no cure for the condition, and mortality is high.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The stakes are much lower, mortality-wise, but the agita is high.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Pearl discussed how Leach’s death forces him to face his mortality.
    — al, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The worst-case scenario of mortality would be around two million.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For all this, however, some elves saw fit to choose mortality.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • These foods are also linked to higher all-cause mortality.
    — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The songs consist of themes ranging from climate change to wartime to fear of mortality.
    — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And in this final season, that flavor of mortality is the show’s top note.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
  • Each collar has a mortality switch that sends out a signal if an animal has not moved for six hours.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
  • This urgent reminder of his mortality prompted me to reflect on the arc of his life.
    — John Avlon, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • The team found that all-cause mortality increased by 67% during the month of the fires.
    — Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Did themes of aging and mortality seep into your own thinking?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And mortality is only part of the story.
    — Shelley Stewart Iii, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • We might be terrified of it and not want to recognize our own mortality.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One study that looked at fawn mortality in the absence of predators noted that fawns still found plenty of ways to die.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
  • These things can signal mortality for dog owners.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There is a new restraint in her cooking, and possibly a sense of mortality.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Each collar is equipped with a mortality signal that alerts researchers if an opossum dies.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And there's some vaccines that have been shown to be very beneficial for all-cause mortality.
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026

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