9 sentences with 'toll'
Example sentences and phrases with the word toll and other words derived from it.
• « The demographic consequences of the Black Death, namely its enormous death toll, resulted in a labour shortage across Europe. »
• « The death toll of World War II was unprecedented, and most of the dead were civilians. Millions more were made homeless and displaced, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. »
• « The Spanish also brought smallpox to the Valley of Mexico. The disease took a heavy toll on the people of Tenochtitlán, playing a far greater role in the city's demise than the force of Spanish arms. »
• « Men and women were massacred whether or not they had participated in the uprising, villages were burned to the ground, and the death toll easily exceeded 100,000 (some estimates put the figure much higher). »
• « The death toll was staggering: in the end, the Black Death killed about a third of Europe's population in just three years (this is a conservative estimate - some historians today have estimated it was closer to half!). »
• « Thanks to SS documentation, the Allies correctly calculated that the death toll of Jews murdered by the Third Reich amounted to some six million individuals, and the basic mechanisms of deportation, enslavement and gassing were also clear. »
• « What Nazi strategists called the "War of Annihilation" launched by Germany against the Soviet Union was specifically aimed at destroying the Soviet population, not just its government, as the death toll so horrifically illustrates: some 25 million Soviets died, including approximately 17 million civilians. »
• « The first months of the war revealed that they were indeed strong, in a sense, being far more lethal than anything created before. Human bodies were pitifully weak in comparison, and as the death toll mounted, the human (and financial) costs associated with modern warfare shattered the image of national strength that politicians and generals continued to cling to. »
• « The most striking death toll of the war was the Battle of the Somme, a disastrous British offensive in 1916 in which 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day alone - there were more British soldiers killed and wounded in the first three days of the Battle of the Somme than Americans killed in World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. »
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