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a count of troops killed in an operation or time period
the daily body count increased as the war went on
How To Use body count In A Sentence
- But as the body count rises and thefts occur, the ship's crew begs for Elsa to get involved - and the naturally curious writer can't help but start sleuthing.
- If I joined the tiddlywinks association, and start playing darts, or tiddlywinks, or sports, or swimming or whatever, nobody counts me.
- Yon describes a full month of bloody skirmishes in the streets of Mosul, complete with body counts.
- McMahon has also brushed off suggestions that the WWE is a serious business with a body count by repeatedly saying that the whole thing is a "soap opera" that "isn't real. Dave Zirin: Linda McMahon's Body Count
- Ice T rapped, then rocked with his metal band Body Count.
- But even as he was speaking, the body count was rising.
- At its heart, The Rockville Slayer is a crime procedural, and the body count is actually pretty minimal.
- Metrics such as use of "body counts" and scientific solutions such as using the herbicide Agent Orange to defoliate jungles in which communist guerrillas hid became trademarks of the conflict. Vietnam-era Pentagon chief McNamara dead at 93
- With a body count now estimated at some 400, the killings have been called the maquiladora murders because some of the victims worked in the city's factories, which are also known as maquiladoras. GreenCine Daily
- And anybody who believes Israeli body counts of “Hamas fighters” vs civilian casualties is an idiot, as well. Matthew Yglesias » What Other Country