How to Use nonfatal in a Sentence

nonfatal

adjective
  • No charges will be filed over the nonfatal shooting of Souza.
    — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Homicides and nonfatal shootings are down two years in a row.
    — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The city broke its homicide record for the third year in a row and nonfatal shootings stayed flat from the year before.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • And then there are the even more numerous nonfatal drownings.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There was also a nonfatal double shooting in the city over the weekend.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • By this time last year, there had been one nonfatal shooting in Winton Hills.
    — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The number of nonfatal shootings this year is 264, two less than from the same time a year ago.
    — Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • The city has also seen over 400 nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2021
  • In Hyde Park, there have been 11 nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The man was the 23rd victim of a nonfatal shooting in the city this year, Boisvert said.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Baltimore is poised to end the year with the fewest homicides in more than a decade, and nonfatal shootings have plunged from a year ago.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Baltimore is poised to end the year with the fewest homicides in more than a decade, and nonfatal shootings have plunged from a year ago.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Find all of the deadly devices - tacks, peach, leech, awl, ennui - and win a (nonfatal) bookmark.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
  • Last year, 80 children and teens were the victims of nonfatal shootings.
    — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2021
  • As of last month, homicides were up 23% from the same time last year and nonfatal shootings were up 50%.
    — USA Today, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Police have linked other nonfatal shootings to the same feud, according to court records.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Three of the four who sustained nonfatal injuries also were lacrosse student athletes.
    — Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Homicides are down 32% year over year; nonfatal shootings are down 38%.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The nonfatal shooting they are being charged with was in March 2021.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2022
  • And the numbers of nonfatal shootings in Santa Fe don’t appear to have changed much.
    — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Niemeier also reported a slight increase in nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
  • The teen was transported to a hospital with nonfatal injuries.
    — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Last year, at least nine women were charged in nonfatal shootings, more than double the number in 2019.
    — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2021
  • In the first three months of 2022, both fatal and nonfatal shootings were down in Chicago.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • So far in 2020, nine women have been charged in nonfatal shootings, more than double the number from last year.
    — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • In the first five months of the year, homicides were up 27 percent, and nonfatal shootings were up 44 percent.
    — Marin Cogan, Vox, 1 May 2024
  • The 21-year-old man was in the hospital Friday with nonfatal injuries.
    — Dessi Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2020
  • In 2019, city data showed there were two homicides on the system in the city limits and five nonfatal shootings.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The 17-year-old was taken to a hospital with nonfatal injuries and was arrested.
    — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • There were 38 nonfatal overdoses in J-town in the first half of this year, up 75 percent over the first half of last year.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2017

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