How To Use Fatal In A Sentence

In the closet scene, Hamlet mistook her father for the king, and he fatally stabbed him.
Sudden ruptures of the artery can lead to fatal blood loss or severe brain damage.
Vehicles cannot gain sufficient momentum to cause a fatal accident. Times, Sunday Times
Risky - and often fatal - backstreet abortions continue to be the only alternative for some.
One worker would have suffered fatal burns had he not worn a protective chemical suit which was not routine for repair work.

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A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road, with fatal consequences.
Apart from the two fatalities, there have been two serious injury accidents and four minor collisions.
The report reveals fatal flaws in security at the airport.
Protective pads and headgear would be encouraged to reduce the amount of fatalities right off the bat.
It can cause a brain infection that is often fatal. Times, Sunday Times
But what galvanized education and research efforts to a more urgent level was the discovery in 2000 that many houseboats were built with a fatal flaw.
Vehicles cannot gain sufficient momentum to cause a fatal accident. Times, Sunday Times
We can ourselves bear witness to the "hardness of the pavement" below, which Captain Wentworth feared would cause "too great a jar" when he urged the young lady to desist from the fatal leap. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
Almost all of the fatal cases of helminthic infection in the United States are caused by an autoinfecting nematode.
What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea! Sir Charles Grandison
Kisel has recorded a fatal case of anemia, in a child of six, dependent on teniae. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Production was cut at its rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and at onshore refineries such as Texas City, which was also the scene of a fatal fire in March.
It is my conviction , or my delusion , that crime brings its own fatality with it.
A string of Labour figures of all ranks are calling for the Premier to quit to save the party from being fatally damaged. The Sun
Cardiac hypertrophy - the enlargement of the heart muscle cells - can be fatal.
Other experts said compensation payouts could be as high at $10m per fatality.
The film follows the relationship between sexy femme fatale Suzy and young lawyer Jim, which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion.
He survived a near fatal heart attack and subsequent cardiac surgery, only to succumb to motor neurone disease.
The big worry is that the cash-strapped Irish health service is ill equipped to deal with an epidemic of any form, least of all a potentially fatal virus like SARS.
A potentially fatal bacterial disease passed to humans through animals and infected water.
This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
Hundreds of angry Malawians hounded a senior political figure from his house and stoned him [though not fatally] late Wednesday, accusing him of harboring vampires.
In addition, while Senator McCain was certainly correct in the debate when he claimed that Colombia and its President, Alvaro Uribe, constitute the U. S.'s number one ally in the region, HRW's new report paints a picture of Uribe as a major obstructer of the process to cut the fatal ties between the Colombian government and the murderous paramilitaries in that country. Dan Kovalik: Obama & Human Rights Watch -- Colombia Must Improve Human Rights
Video footage emerged yesterday of a British student introducing himself at a Colombian tribal ceremony just before taking a fatal dose of a hallucinogenic drug. Times, Sunday Times
However, some people can have an immediate and more widespread allergic reaction, such as an anaphylactic shock and this can be fatal.
He had not delivered the fatal blows, he had not pulled the trigger.
MUSKOGEE - Muskogee police are searching for more persons of interest from a Saturday fatal shooting at a mall. NewsOK.com RSS - home
The level was so high that a second reading was taken and although this was lower it was still so abnormal as to be fatal.
What are the fatal flaws that bring him into such contempt among his own peer group?
She is miscast as the semi-femme fatale.
Paul Bert, in his remarkable studies on the influence of barometric pressure on the phenomena of life, has recognized the fact that compressed oxygen is fatal to certain ferments, whilst under similar conditions it does not interfere with the action of those substances classed under the name of soluble ferments, such as diastase (the ferment which inverts cane sugar), emulsin and others. VI. The Physiological Theory of Fermentation. Reply to the Critical Observations of Liebig, Published in 1870
Experts claim that at least half were inflicted well before the fatal blow.
On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
Palace, which is situated on the same side of the Via della Longara, but which looks out upon that part of the Janiculum which is still uncovered, there have been some fatal cases of fever. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain. Times, Sunday Times
If Black retires the Bishop from his unsafe position, White permanently prevents Black from castling, which is bound to be fatal in view of the open K file -- e.g. 11. ... Chess Strategy
A better analogy (though still an impolitic one) would have been traffic fatalities.
This latest round of cultural subversion fatally compromised Wall Street's ability to hold its own against New Deal reformers.
Worse still, he smells and if you're unfortunate enough to get next to him on the cross trainer and he starts really pumping it, it can cause disturbed breathing that leads to a fatal arrhythmia.
This illness is fatal in almost all cases.
The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry has dropped dramatically in recent years.
Then comes an entirely new set of challenges: face-offs with writer friends whose essays he failed to select for the literary pastiche and fears the anthology will get skewered fatally by critics.
Film noir is known for electrifying, fatalistic dialogue.
Is he afraid we will expose the huge holes in these fatally flawed proposals?
The stings can be exceptionally painful and in extreme cases fatal. Times, Sunday Times
In flashback, we learn how this man lost the will to live, a story that naturally involves a femme fatale. Times, Sunday Times
All very reasonable arguments and succinctly put, but in my opinion reusable nappies still have one fatal flaw - they are not self-cleaning.
While such a sophisticated politician was well aware of the pitfalls involved in fiercely defending his policies and sticking unswervingly to his principles, with hindsight this decision can be seen as fatally flawed.
Any delay would be fatal.
He witnessed the fatal electrocution of a tradesman, and saw at a very early age just how dangerous the workplace could be.
Eleven teenagers were arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor.
Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Fregellae, the town which assumed the lead in the movement and either through overhaste or faulty information alone took the fatal step, [486] was a Latin colony which had been planted by Rome in the territory of the Volsci in the year 328 A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.
Someone folds up a newspaper with a fatalistic headline.
a fatalist person
He exercises all the authority that the first ravener had before him, and passes a law that the earth and those living in it must worship the first ravener, the one with the healed fatal wound. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
That was mainly down to fewer fatalities from heart and circulatory diseases such as cardiac arrests and strokes. The Sun
People have fallen through plate glass windows without sustaining fatal injuries. THE EXECUTION
Botulism is another fatal disease which has come to the fore in recent years.
And the comic's worries were heightened by the fact his father died at an early age of a fatal heart attack. The Sun
In 1742 he suffered a fatal attack of smallpox.
In early January, the Fredericton woman contracted a potentially fatal condition called cryptococcal meningitis, a fungal disease carried in the feces of pigeons. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
The regime was fatally weakened by the unrest and violence.
None of it is fatal, but it's neither particularly winsome nor witty. Times, Sunday Times
The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations. Archive 2007-07-01
It was the first fatal crash in the airliner's 31-year history.
Two of the knife thrusts were fatal.
The spores transform into the anthrax bacteria, which produce a toxin that can be fatal to humans and animals.
As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.
The company said tests showed mixed results for Listeria monocytogenes. The bacterium can cause serious or fatal infections in young children or elderly people.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.
During the summer, her depression worsened and she took a potentially fatal overdose.
Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution. Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
The death is the latest in a string of workplace fatalities in New Zealand.
He reviewed pages of typed medical records and scribbled notes that charted with clinical precision each sailors fatal wounds: Blast injury to brain, Multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds, Exsanguination from complete transection of body. The Attack on the Liberty
School violence is being assimilated into the broader sense of fatalism and passivity about the perpetration of violence in our nation and in our world.
fatalistic thinking
Yesterday, he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.
The sting from one of these daft-looking things will killyou in less than three minutes andthey have been responsible for almost six thousand human fatalities since 1954. Britney Spears Saves Couple From Death Or Discomfort
Page 340, footnote 3. _idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
I learned the word fatalism at a young age and after I got over the idea that it meant something about death, I grew very attached to it. The Kitchen Daughter
This was a hefty dose, half a fatal dose for a healthy individual. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
That incident was the state's first hunting-related fatality involving a nonhunter in at least a quarter-century. The News Tribune Blogs
Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.
Hypersensitivity reactions have also occurred with lamotrigine therapy; some reactions have been fatal or life-threatening.
Choking agents, such as phosgene and diphosgene, block respiration by damaging the breathing mechanism, which can be fatal. FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support
News of the fatal attack has prompted enquiries from prospective owners to kennels that raise the dogs, which were originally bred from cattle dogs, mastiffs and bulldogs brought to the Canary Islands by British settlers.
We may have to give up saying, for instance, that a piece of paper is simply destroyed when it is burnt to ashes, or even that a human being simply ceases to exist upon undergoing a fatal accident.
She was fatally wounded in a gun battle and her death is being probed. The Sun
The number of fatal road accidents in North Yorkshire leapt dramatically last year, according to new figures.
Beatrice observed this remarkable phenomenon and crossed herself, sadly, but without surprise; nor did she therefore hesitate to arrange the fatal flower in her bosom.
The markets have exposed the fatal flaw in the government's economic policy.
Why does parenthood so often deliver a fatal blow? Times, Sunday Times
There were six more accidents that rush hour, two of them fatalities. COLDHEART CANYON
But the other day, when first I beheld thee, whether it proceeded from thy happinesse in fortune, or the fatall houre of my owne infelicity for ever, I know not; I conceyved such an effectuall kinde of liking towardes thee, as never did Woman love a man more truely then I doe thee having sworn within my soule to make thee my The Decameron
It would be fatal to bring in outsider.
The fatal flaw is that their very success means nobody looks different. Times, Sunday Times
The bluesy southern stomp of Beautiful Sorta, with its restless energy and reckless singing, is doused in drink and James Dean fatalism, and finds Adams flailing around for the arms of a good woman to cling to.
They address matters of fate, fatality and finality with yet more weight and wit.
She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal. Maxims for Revolutionists
Even though they cooked the bodies before eating them, they still contracted a mysterious fatal illness called "kuru," akin to mad-cow disease. Readthehook.com - Current Articles
Finally, for failure to have some prognostic importance it should correlate with fatality, and we have shown that in these studies a correlation did not exist.
England's tactics were dismal and negative, letting the game drift in an almost fatalistic manner. Times, Sunday Times
And he said a local undertaker had told him he had arranged at least four funerals after fatalities on that stretch of road over the last 20 years.
Having weakened the bull, the matador in this Madrid fight at the last moment refused to deliver the fatal thrust.
But the figures do NOT include more than 250 fatal stabbings or thousands of more minor knife offences. The Sun
One momentary lapse in concentration could prove fatal.
After the family firm's bookkeeper-nephew takes a fatal fall, which local police deem an accident, Lynley's Yard superior asks the dectective inspector to double-check that verdict, though quietly: "No feathers ruffled but no stone unturned. In Brief: Mysteries
- Fatal hunting-related shootings in which a nonhunter is a victim are rare in The Shad Plank
He was a Navy stoker ready to board the fatal expedition, when a last minute order by his Captain to forgo the operation and remain ashore saved his life.
And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they'd never dare flirt with a woman again?
Prescott reports a case of what he calls fatal colic from the lodgment of a chocolate-nut in the appendix; and Noyes relates an instance of death in a man of thirty-one attributed to the presence of a raisin-seed in the vermiform appendix. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The women also at risk haemorrhage and potentially fatal blood clots. The Sun
In fact, there is only one fatal illness, The Mildew, and if you catch that, there is nothing but The Green Room, a chamber of soothing shades that lead you comfortably, painlessly and euphorically to a place where you are no longer a burden. Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just
Yet it seems indeed, disregarding rare exceptions, that sooner or later a point is reached where arsphenamine treatment is unable to halt the fatal progression. Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture
Audiences must have bought into the fatalistic inevitability of the plot devices.
A fatal mistake was choosing to colonise land at the heart of the Spanish empire.
Choking agents, such as phosgene and diphosgene, block respiration by damaging the breathing mechanism, which can be fatal. FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support
I have enough to suffer already; "and I knew she was again thinking of that fatal dish of water, and how" Dora "Eweword twitted her concerning it. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Another and oftentimes fatal mistake made by the nonprofessional is the indiscriminate and reckless use of aconite. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency- Archive 2006-01-01
Within this awareness there is both fatalism and intense emotion.
It also helped him to survive a near-fatal episode of bacterial meningitis three years ago, then make a complete recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality. Gravity's Rainbow
The fatal bonnet lay on the table of the Court; Bargally swore that it was the identical article worn by the man who robbed him; and he and others likewise deponed that they had found the accused on the spot where the crime was committed, with the bonnet on his head. Additional Note
The play is one of the most potent amalgams of the Bard's keen psychological observation, tragic fatalism, and bitingly intelligent verbal and conceptual humor.
He made the fatal mistake of compromising early.
Disunity can also prove fatal - wildebeests or caribou that stray away from the main herd are far more likely to fall victim to lions or wolves.
He was supposedly a cunning manipulator who lured his adversary into a fatal trap.
On the one hand she is admired for her courage, political intelligence, and stoicism; on the other hand she is seen as a femme fatale, a seductress, and a symbol of death.
The observatory has compiled details of the fatal shootings. Times, Sunday Times
He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate.
Settling down to taste some sweet-smelling sap, the unsuspecting prey has made a fatal mistake.
Easter Saturday was the day when the fatal hour arrived to strike, and the Germans sent their shiploads to Ireland; but the old British Navy had their tip in time, and they arrested the arms and sent the ships to the bottom of. the sea, and the German submarine ran to Ireland with Sir Roger Casement, who was supposed to be the Ambassador at the Court of Berlin-we have a wonderful lot of ambassadors, but somehow they are living out of Ireland, a whole lot of them (laughter) and they are remaining away for Ireland's good, and I trust that what will happen to poor de Valera is what happened to some men like Casement. The Irish Problem
For instance, as few as one or two heartworms can be fatal to cats.
More Infections Often Tied to Food According to WHO, of more than 1,600 people sickened by this E. coli strain, 499 developed a rare and potentially fatal kidney-failure complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome—a complication that can shut down the kidneys and normally occurs in only a small percentage of people sickened during an E. coli outbreak. Rare Germ Drives Outbreak
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
None of it is fatal, but it's neither particularly winsome nor witty. Times, Sunday Times
Although pre-eclampsia cannot be completely cured before the delivery, administering drugs such as magnesium sulfate can lower a woman's risk of developing convulsions (eclampsia), which can be fatal.
The court heard that there had been two earlier violent incidents before the fatal confrontation.
Her history is what Rove was talking about when he called her fatally flawed. Karl Rove Denies He's Attacking Hillary To Help Her
A California woman is suing a hospital for wrongful death because her husband fainted and suffered a fatal injury after helping delivery room staff give her a painkilling injection.
To be sure, our ancestors would have enhanced themselves and their progeny in ways that seemed universally desirable - eliminating fatal maladies, disfigurement, mental incapacities, and so forth.
Infact, after controlling for regional heterogeneity, any one of these three variables is sufficient to subsume the impact of regime type on wars, militarized interstate disputes (MIDs), and fatal disputes. Moral and Mental Development, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
SARATOGA SPRINGS - NewsChannel 13 has learned that a Saratoga county man has pleaded guilty in a fatal hit an run accident. Wnyt.com - Capital Region News, Weather and Sports from NEWSCHANNEL 13
In such circumstances, cynicism, passivity and a sense of fatalism can influence public attitudes.
Fatal cases or secondary illnesses have become more and more of a rarity in goitre operations. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech
Marburg haemorrhagic fever is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola haemorrhagic fever.
Sivak and Schoettle found that in 2005, 2,369 fatal accidents were blamed on "inattentive" driving – including eating, talking or using a phone. New Puzzle: Why Fewer are Killed in Car Crashes
If you haven't already seen the movie, it will spoil nothing to tell you that the accident, discreetly shown as a "Six Feet Under" - style whiteout, is not fatal. September 2005
To thee, the fortune of the fatal field Inclining, unauspicious fame shall yield; The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets
One momentary lapse in concentration could prove fatal.
While human encounters with cobras, vipers, and pythons can prove fatal, more often than not it is the snakes that are killed.
Vibrio anguillarum, a severe pathogen of marine fish, is the causative agent ofvibriosis which is a highly fatal hemorrhagic septicemic disease.
His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level. Times, Sunday Times
So we can say that in all his films the plot leads to a fatal end, a tragic destiny which the characters cannot avoid because it is presented as an absolute truth.
In the vast majority of cases the disease is fatal.
it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
WHO has received no reports of fatal outcomes among suspected or confirmed cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome detected since vaccination campaigns began.
The last act of the witenagemot in England was to choose Harold, Earl of Wessex, as King in 1066, a fatal choice.
Hog cholera is seriously threatening the development of pig—raising, for it is highly epidemic and fatal.
A couple of these essays are fatally infected by the particular strain of logorrhoea that afflicts so much current architectural theory.
Thus people are rendered fatalistic and generally accept their situation in life rather than make rational efforts to change it. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The final act exposes the fatal flaws in his make-up.
The design increased boot space and was cheaper but contained a fatal flaw. Times, Sunday Times
Although there were several factors contributing to these fatalities, the grand jury reasonably inferred that defendants 'conduct in dismantling the standpipe and the failing to take corrective action was an actual contributory cause of the deaths," Uviller wrote. Ruling Expected In Deutsche Bank Fire Case
From that journey he never returned alive, being attacked with a fatal fluxion of the lungs at a great public banquet given in his honor by Count Florida Blanca. Calvert of Strathore
The last fatal bear attack in Montana was in 2001 and this week's attacks were the most serious in Yellowstone since the 1980s, wildlife officials said. Times, Sunday Times
So the men wore simple shirts and trousers and women zippered pink cotton frocks and pink ballet shoes (perhaps the fatal anomaly), rather than dirndls and bare feet or sandals.
Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
Cancer caused 28 per cent of fatalities and circulatory diseases 26 per cent. The Sun
He committed another crime by catching the cab with no intention of paying and another crime by stealing from the fatally injured cabbie.
There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.
When greasy rungs are climbed, fat is fatal. Times, Sunday Times
Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell. The Bride of Lammermoor
The result would be fatal to most motorists as vehicles are likely to be damaged.
This ravishing city, seductively perfumed with orange blossom, is every bit as alluring as Spain's most infamous femme fatale.
Experimental vaccines to treat other cancers - including the deadly skin disease melanoma and an often fatal childhood tumor called neuroblastoma - are already in late-stage development. WRAL.com Top Stories
Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
There have been several other fatalities away from the track on training gallops.
It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical refinements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites, -- for the worst distemperature of the mind, and the most fatal catastrophes, -- in natural propension, and unrestrained feeling. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
There have been some 100 cases of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) and more than 400 of human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), with more than 10 fatalities, since the diseases were recognized, in 1993 and 1985. The Almanac
It jettisons the Femme Fatale, and recasts the role as a vulnerable, damaged, perpetually on-edge woman who is never in control.
The artwork presents a series of large silk veils suspended from the ceiling, which are imprinted with images of mothers whose children were fatally shot.
Despite the widespread fear of these enormous predators white shark attacks are rarely fatal.
_The gelatigenous tissue_: This tissue, chemically and otherwise peculiar as it is, forms the chief component part of many of the human organs, and it may be truly said that the lack of attention which its peculiarities have received in the past is responsible for more disease and its fatal issue than almost anything else. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
SALISBURY, Md. - Salisbury officials are reporting the first weather fatality. WMDT Top News Stories
The Fatal Nature of Life I like the title bounds throughout history chronicling the misadventures of a pathetic loser who, through nearly every fault of his own, just can’t get things right. Archive 2006-08-27
The last fatal shooting attributed to the sniper took place Tuesday.
Lately Metro has taken a lot of heat because of persistent subway system deficiencies: lack of air conditioning in rail cars; escalator and elevator outages; and operator or equipment failures resulting in derailments and collisions -- along with injuries and fatalities. Shaping the City: Let there be light (carefully) in Metro stations
Many people I know may agree with me but have become totally fatalistic about the chances of convincing anyone else. Times, Sunday Times

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