[
UK
/feɪtˈælɪti/
]
[ US /fəˈtæɫɪti/ ]
[ US /fəˈtæɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
-
a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities - the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
How To Use fatality In A Sentence
- 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
- It is my conviction , or my delusion , that crime brings its own fatality with it.
- Other experts said compensation payouts could be as high at $10m per fatality.
- That incident was the state's first hunting-related fatality involving a nonhunter in at least a quarter-century. The News Tribune Blogs
- They address matters of fate, fatality and finality with yet more weight and wit.
- 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.
- 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
- SALISBURY, Md. - Salisbury officials are reporting the first weather fatality. WMDT Top News Stories
- Lou, it turns out, was the only fatality of the explosion, harrowingly replayed in flashback as Tommy fills out the paperwork. Finale Review: Rescue Me
- Two years later, America's Greg Lemond - another man who recovered from near-fatality - ousted the leader Laurent Fignon on a coruscating final stage in Paris… by six seconds.