Below you will find example sentences with "people die". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

People Die in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: die
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.2 words

Words in this phrase

people die

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • people can mean: plural of person: a body of persons considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons. Very common word
  • die can mean: To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

167 000 people die of every 1× 2 million people die from the 1× 40 000 people die of sepsis 1× 5 000 people die each year 1× 52 our people die before their 1× a dozen people die often from 1× and more people die dutch s 1× even more people die 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a criminal justice 1× annually 8 million 1× around 167 000 1× arthur and dutch 1× autism and learning 1× currently about 5 1×

Common sentence endings:

and car accidents 1× by the fbi 1× die from cigarettes 1× drinking fizzy drinks 1× eitherway people die 1× ever warming world 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

year 9× 000 6× nhs 3× thousands 3× dying 2× learning 2× incidents 2× defined 2× four 2× used 2× become 2× ill 2×

Related phrases

young people homeless people indigenous people ordinary people innocent people older people poor people elderly people fewer people jewish people

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

people diagnosed people chose people attended people aren people aged people across

Just after it in the phrase index:

people don people entering people everywhere people experiencing people familiar people gathered

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

people living people attended people gathered people experiencing people familiar people killed

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "people die" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 167 000 people die of every, 2 million people die from the, year, 000 and nhs stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people and indigenous people, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with people die

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Around 167,000 people die of every year in the UK. (11 words)

Far fewer people die in terrorist incidents than die of drinking fizzy drinks. (13 words)

According to the report, more people die from air pollution than unsanitary hygiene practices and malnutrition. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Arthur and Dutch may have had the relationship one would expect of father and son, but as plans go awry and more people die, Dutch’s confidence falters as does their bond, yet Arthur tries his best to believe him. (40 words)

Autism and learning disability are priorities in the NHS long-term plan, and a recent NHS-commissioned review of mortality rates shows learning disabled people die earlier and are more likely to die in hospital than the general population. (39 words)

At least 68 people have died this year in those killings, which are defined as incidents in which four or more people die within a 24-hour period, not including the killer — the same definition used by the FBI. (39 words)

Question examples

Where are all the generators and water trucks to give these people support before even more people die? (18 words)

Example sentences (20)

Studies show that lockdowns have resulted in people dying and going to die from missing cancer diagnosis etc. So eitherway people die.

Six people die and a couple hundred sick (total), compared to the 480,000 people (per year) who die from cigarettes.

We are all going to die, but in Sierra Leone, life expectancy is 52, our people die before their time.

Autism and learning disability are priorities in the NHS long-term plan, and a recent NHS-commissioned review of mortality rates shows learning disabled people die earlier and are more likely to die in hospital than the general population.

Far fewer people die in terrorist incidents than die of drinking fizzy drinks.

According to the NHS, almost 40,000 people die of sepsis every year – around a third of the reported cases of people diagnosed with the condition.

At least 68 people have died this year in those killings, which are defined as incidents in which four or more people die within a 24-hour period, not including the killer — the same definition used by the FBI.

The reason people are dying from neglect is not because the government doesn’t have the resources to help, but because they choose to let people die.

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Where are all the generators and water trucks to give these people support before even more people die?

Millions of people become ill, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized and thousands or tens of thousands of people die from flu every year.

More than 50 people die from distracted-driving crashes in Minnesota each year on average, and about 221 people suffer serious injuries.

Annually, 8 million people become ill with tuberculosis, and 2 million people die from the disease worldwide.

According to the report, more people die from air pollution than unsanitary hygiene practices and malnutrition.

A criminal justice professor says the MAC-10 firearm has rarely been used in mass shootings, which are defined as those in which at least four people die.

Around 167,000 people die of every year in the UK.

Arthur and Dutch may have had the relationship one would expect of father and son, but as plans go awry and more people die, Dutch’s confidence falters as does their bond, yet Arthur tries his best to believe him.

Currently about 5,000 people die each year in New Zealand from smoking and smoking-related problems - nearly a 1,000 of whom are Māori.

Every year in Yosemite, roughly a dozen people die, often from heart attacks and car accidents.

Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world.

Here in Arizona, more than five people die every day due to opioid overdoses according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.

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