fatally
in a manner leading to death or disaster: He was injured fatally in the accident.
by a decree of fate or destiny; by inevitable predetermination.
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How to use fatally in a sentence
Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon-believing rioter who was fatally shot trying to break into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, had served in the Air Force.
The Pentagon is taking a major step to deal with its diversity problems | Alex Ward | February 12, 2021 | VoxA 20-year-old Northern Virginia man was fatally shot and found inside a vehicle in Dumfries.
Man found fatally shot inside vehicle in Dumfries | Dana Hedgpeth | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostA District man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in Northeast Washington, police said.
District man killed on Minnesota Avenue NE Saturday afternoon, police say | Allison Klein | February 7, 2021 | Washington PostSheriff’s deputy fatally shoots man in Gaithersburg How the coronavirus spread through the District, Maryland and Virginia
Man found dead after Prince George’s County house fire | Paul M. Duggan | February 7, 2021 | Washington PostMTA bus driver Marcus Parks was fatally shot in southeast Baltimore in October after an argument with a man trying to board his bus.
Mobility van driver fatally gunned down while working in Baltimore | Samantha Schmidt | January 30, 2021 | Washington Post
A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.
This is not because of bad leaders, or polarized politics, but because of a governing structure that is fatally flawed.
One of those incidents came last December, when a driver for the company fatally struck 6-year-old Sofia Liu in a crosswalk.
Cops launched a flash grenade through the window and officer Joseph Weekley fired, fatally striking Stanley-Jones.
Worse Than Eric Garner: Cops Who Got Away With Killing Autistic Men and Little Girls | Emily Shire | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAiyana Stanley-Jones was not even confronting police officers when she was fatally shot the night of May 16, 2010.
Worse Than Eric Garner: Cops Who Got Away With Killing Autistic Men and Little Girls | Emily Shire | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo lose a breath of the public approbation in his present state, were to give up fatally the only stay on which he rested.
Half of Braddock's 1600 troops were killed or wounded, Braddock himself being fatally wounded in action.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyIt struck and injured fatally an innocent outsider, who was taken to the Charity Hospital, in the rue Jacob, and died there.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley SmithThen he just kept triggering until the gun was emptied and he had put five slugs fatally into Big Sid's carcass.
A very light attack of any of these diseases in one child may infect another fatally.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
British Dictionary definitions for fatally
/ (ˈfeɪtəlɪ) /
resulting in death or disaster: fatally wounded in battle
as decreed by fate; inevitably
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