Sample Sentences formortality (editor-reviewed)
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His death made me aware of my own mortality.mortality = the state of being subject to death (i.e., being mortal)
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I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. (source)mortality = death
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The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300 — and so it went on. (source)mortality = death rate
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Mortality data show that in famines and droughts, it is mostly girls who die, not boys. (source)Mortality = death rate (often given per 1,000 people per year)
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He said his bout with TB had set him to pondering about mortality and the nature of the cosmos.† (source)
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The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.† (source)
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Moord: mortality, mordant, morbid, murder.† (source)
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The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.† (source)
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He thought that my encounter with mortality had shaken me out of my immaturity and waywardness.† (source)
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But again, the morbidity and mortality turned out to be high.† (source)
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Hoodlums punch my face I would smite them if I could Mortality blows† (source)
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The things we do outlast our mortality.† (source)
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Infant mortality in the wild is high.† (source)
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Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.† (source)
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Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries.† (source)
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Or else, if it was him talking, he was talking about something besides accepting his mortality and avoiding inheritance taxes.† (source)
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