8 sentences with 'deaths'
Example sentences and phrases with the word deaths and other words derived from it.
• « We consider road deaths so natural when the victims are strangers that, perhaps for that reason, they are no longer impressive. »
• « But these phenomena threaten human life above all: the number of deaths they cause is greater than those caused by tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. Lightning kills because it paralyzes the heart or the respiratory system with its electrical discharge, so powerful that it often detaches a person's shoe. »
• « Only one percent of lightning deaths occur indoors, so the safest thing to do during a thunderstorm is to stay indoors. »
• « The bloodbath that followed resulted in approximately 55 million deaths, including the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and at least 25 million citizens of the Soviet Union, another "racial" enemy from the Nazis' perspective. »
• « The events in Paris, in turn, triggered massacres across the country with at least 20,000 more deaths (supposedly, the Pope was so pleased with the news that he gave 100 gold coins to the messenger who brought them to him). »
• « Other scientists followed his example and, by the end of the century, deaths in Europe from infectious diseases were reduced by sixty per cent, mainly thanks to improvements in hygiene (antibiotics would not be developed until the late 1920s). »
• « The British saw a casualty rate of "only" 39%, but that figure still represented the deaths of nearly a million men, with many more wounded or missing. »