[ UK /fe‍ɪtˈælɪti/ ]
[ US /fəˈtæɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
    a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
  2. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
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How To Use fatality In A Sentence

  • In the case of a fatality, the insured will receive the sum assured and then the maturity value.
  • That race also produced a second equine fatality of the day. Times, Sunday Times
  • On Christmas Eve, he wrote the first letter addressed explicitly to the Muscatine Journal, indulging a bit of tabloid journalism a fire fatality’s “feet were burned off, his face burnt to a crisp, and his head crushed in”.22 He mixed patriotic travelogue and grumpy preservationism. Mark Twain
  • A businessman from East Yorkshire has died after being stung by a tiny jellyfish in what is thought to be the first known fatality of its kind.
  • Last week, all 21 races were completed without equine fatality or serious injury. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was more by luck than judgment that this did not result in a serious injury or fatality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Harcourt and his outrigger were again skimming on the surface and floating about Rose; Mr. Greydon either had some excuse for calling on Arthur, or called without any excuse at all, except the old hackneyed one of "the fatality," and by his manner to Janet, Blanche was led to the comfortable conviction that, by giving Mr. Greydon this living, she should at once provide her village with an unexceptionable pastor, and pay off some of her debt of gratitude to the Hopkinson family. The Semi-Detached House
  • The most serious form of skin cancer has a 30 percent fatality rate.
  • If there was a fatality in the morning, a buzzer used to go and you didn't work in the afternoon. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • And the risks of getting it wrong are very real: barely a year goes by without a fatality or serious injury along the route. Times, Sunday Times
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