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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
- U.K. and other foreign troops, and by other Iraqis in sectarian violence, Peter Bagnall, who analyzed the documents for Iraq Body Count, said in an interview. Website Claims 15,000 Unreported Iraq War Deaths
- If only the spirit and not the body counts, then it is the individual and not the assembly that matters.
- We are bound together in this bloody conflict where the body counts have to break double digits to really get our attention anymore.
- As the identities of the missing emerge, we move from a statistical body count to the tragedy of human loss - brothers, mothers, lovers and daughters cruelly blown away as they headed to work.
- Bush was forced to respond in his weekly national radio broadcast on Sunday to fears that the body count could rise dramatically.
- A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count.
- Give them enough time and the total body count will excede WWII we cannot allow that to happen. Think Progress » Rice Reveals She Has “Cooperated” with Prosecutor in Leak Probe
- Everybody counts - the happy ones count their blessings and the sad ones count their troubles. RVM
- The movie depends on good dialogue rather than violence and a high body count.
- A higher body count score, for one thing.
