How to Use nonfatal in a Sentence

nonfatal

adjective
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  • The man was the 23rd victim of a nonfatal shooting in the city this year, Boisvert said.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • No charges will be filed over the nonfatal shooting of Souza.
    — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The number of nonfatal shootings this year is 264, two less than from the same time a year ago.
    — Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • The city broke its homicide record for the third year in a row and nonfatal shootings stayed flat from the year before.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • As of last month, homicides were up 23% from the same time last year and nonfatal shootings were up 50%.
    — USA Today, 24 Oct. 2020
  • There were 38 nonfatal overdoses in J-town in the first half of this year, up 75 percent over the first half of last year.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The nonfatal shooting they are being charged with was in March 2021.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2022
  • In the first three months of 2022, both fatal and nonfatal shootings were down in Chicago.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The end of 2017 marked the first time in three years when the number of murders in New Orleans dropped, though nonfatal shootings were up.
    — NOLA.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • In Hyde Park, there have been 11 nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Tatyana Turner, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In the first five months of the year, homicides were up 27 percent, and nonfatal shootings were up 44 percent.
    — Marin Cogan, Vox, 1 May 2024
  • McQueen had been charged with a felony in the nonfatal shooting of his 13-year-old daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Baltimore is poised to end the year with the fewest homicides in more than a decade, and nonfatal shootings have plunged from a year ago.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The rate of nonfatal illness and injury ranked 216th. 7.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Homicides and nonfatal shootings are down two years in a row.
    — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Fred Andrews came next: a masked man hit him with a nonfatal gunshot at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe.
    — Laura Bradley, HWD, 2 May 2018
  • And the numbers of nonfatal shootings in Santa Fe don’t appear to have changed much.
    — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The city has also seen over 400 nonfatal shootings this year.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2021
  • There was also a nonfatal double shooting in the city over the weekend.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Of those, Florida accounted for 16 bites, all nonfatal, among the 41 in the U.S.
    — Freida Frisaro, ajc, 29 June 2023
  • Last year, 80 children and teens were the victims of nonfatal shootings.
    — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2021
  • In the first six months of the year, there were 18 homicides by gunfire in Boston and 69 nonfatal shootings, police said.
    — Christina Prignano, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
  • Find all of the deadly devices - tacks, peach, leech, awl, ennui - and win a (nonfatal) bookmark.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
  • The 21-year-old man was in the hospital Friday with nonfatal injuries.
    — Dessi Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2020
  • So far in 2020, nine women have been charged in nonfatal shootings, more than double the number from last year.
    — Phillip Jackson, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Louisville saw a record year of violence in 2020 and is on track to beat last year's totals for homicides and nonfatal shootings.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 18 June 2021
  • Last year, at least nine women were charged in nonfatal shootings, more than double the number in 2019.
    — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2021
  • Following the homicide, the spree continued with the nonfatal shootings of three people on a porch in the 1900 block of St. Roch Avenue.
    — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Listen to this article Most crime in New Haven has been trending down over the past five years, including homicides and nonfatal shootings, statistics released on Tuesday show.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Those injuries included bruising, swelling and signs of nonfatal drowning, according to the County Attorney's Office.
    — Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024

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