body count
Example Sentences
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Safety regulators and investigators are alarmed by the mounting body count associated with what is believed to be a relatively small number of air bags with DTN parts, people familiar with the situation said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
Officials said the body count could change further as efforts to identify the bodies go on.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023
“A very dark day for the city of New York could have been that much more tragic with a much higher body count if it wasn’t for Detective Sulan,” the president said.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
Changing shape, though, is something that exhausted movie properties struggle to do, and Green and his three co-writers soon revert to the comforting beats of the body count.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Walowick and Monaco made jokes about the body count, but they ended when Captain Stewart told us that afternoon that we were going out again.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
