fatally

Example Sentences

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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

Two victims - a mother who saved her baby in her dying moments and a security guard who was fatally stabbed on his first day shift - will receive posthumous awards.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Whittaker organized Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign efforts in the Pacific Northwest and spoke to him by phone only minutes before the candidate was fatally shot in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He was wrong, fatally so for himself and maybe yet for the regime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Unless love can bridge the other world with this one, there is no chance for Theo and Annet because Annet is fatally ill.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman