fatally

Example Sentences

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Every day, mother-of-three Sarah imagines her perfectly healthy young children are going to die in a car crash or fall fatally ill.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The Garcia sisters filed the federal civil lawsuit in February 2022 and identified Estella Silva as the police officer who fatally shot their father.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

I also experienced the risky complication known as graft-versus-host disease, in which donor immune cells, even when they are a lifesaving match, attack the recipient’s body—sometimes fatally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

The decision is likely to inflame tensions between the federal government and officials in Minnesota, where two U.S. citizens were fatally shot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

After 18 May the Ptolemaic system, which had survived for more than 1,400 years, was fatally wounded.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton