How to Use life expectancy in a Sentence

life expectancy

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  • At the end, my life expectancy flashed on the screen: 50.3.
    — Maria Yogoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024
  • For the past two decades, life expectancy in the United States has stalled.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • Most bridges built in that era have a life expectancy of about 50 years or more.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 13 July 2024
  • Two years of declining life expectancy may not prove to be the start of a long-term trend.
    — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 for men and 81 for women.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2024
  • At about 76, the U.S. life expectancy, the adult will probably die from one of these diseases.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But by 2022, most of the world was back on the upward path, pushing life expectancy to a new global high.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Simpson said that in whale terms that means she’s lived past her life expectancy.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The life expectancy of Ohioans rivals that of Slovakia.
    — Phil Elliott, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • This is similar to the overall life expectancy of 77 for those in the United States.
    — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Rn-Bc, Health, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The younger the victims, the more years of life that were taken from them — and that means a bigger hit to average life expectancy.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The pup had long surpassed the average life expectancy of a chihuahua, 12 to 18 years.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
  • This decline marks the largest decrease in life expectancy since 1923, according to the CDC.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The average life expectancy for a woman in the United States is 77.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Here are some highlights: Women in the U.S. have the lowest life expectancy and the highest rate of avoidable deaths.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Many journalists have examined life expectancy over the years, but not with the sweep of the Post series.
    — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Over the last decade, women's healthy life expectancy has declined by five years and men's by close to three years, according to the study.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 June 2023
  • Monaco is said to average about 300 days of sunshine a year, and has a life expectancy that ranks among the highest in the world.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The Post spent the past year examining U.S. life expectancy.
    — Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • For American men, life expectancy fell by more than eight months, and for women the loss was about seven months, the study found.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • For Black males, the average life expectancy is only 81 — two years short of the white male cohort.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Hospice care requires that a person have a life expectancy of six months or less.
    — John Mulder, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • Charted: How life expectancy is changing around the world.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
  • What is the life expectancy of a person with hemochromatosis?
    — Sarah Jividen, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The average life expectancy for a person with MS is 76 years old.
    — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Rn-Bc, Health, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The maximum life expectancy for a brown recluse is a maximum of four years.
    — al, 28 June 2022
  • The average life expectancy for people with ALS is three to five years from the onset of symptoms.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
  • People with the disease have a life expectancy that’s more than two decades shorter than the rest of the US population.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • As a result, there is a small, decreased life expectancy in people with MGUS.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
  • At the same time, the number of people who are 65 or older will be exploding: a consequence of relatively high birthrates back in the late twentieth century and longer life expectancy.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024

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