How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun

• Scott did not know of the mass casualty declaration until the following morning, his lawyer has said.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
• The environment has also been a casualty of the war, in ways that have affected both human health and local ecosystems.
  — Time, 18 Oct. 2022
• That prompted them to evacuate 25 children and eight staffers as paramedics declared the scene to be a mass casualty incident, according to the spokesperson.
  — Brittany Kubicko, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022
• Ukrainian officials had not released any casualty data on Monday morning’s explosions in Kyiv, as air raid sirens continued to ring out across the city.
  — Nick Parker, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens were two of the most notable casualties of the rule.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 20 July 2024
• Truth, as the saying goes, is the first casualty of war.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ is the first casualty of the Tony Awards.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2023
• But the boom in out-of-town restaurants hasn’t come without casualties to the home team.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 22 May 2023
• As homes shrink in size, hallways could be one of the first casualties.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 16 July 2024
• The aloe plant on my windowsill was almost a casualty of war, so don’t be like me.
  — WIRED, 26 Feb. 2023
• And now Fisker, already in dire straits, might become one of the first big casualties of the slowdown.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Are all of the Americans out, and were there any casualties?
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• This isn’t the first time the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade has suffered heavy casualties.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• Selig’s app is just one casualty of the coming changes.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 12 June 2023
• One of the main casualties of those layoffs were the many TV projects Pixar initially had planned for Disney+.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2024
• The casualties of last year’s storms was the last straw, according to Karazissis.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• Utah Beach saw the fewest number of casualties of all five landing sites.
  — Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
• Add this to Quentin Tarantino’s long list of movie casualties.
  — Vulture, 4 July 2023
• And when Herb Kohl sold the team, Drew became a sudden casualty.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
• But look closer and the pathos starts to emerge: What are these other than corpses — whether victims of the gas chambers or casualties of war?
  — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Barnhart was the first casualty of the Reds’ cost-cutting measures last year.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023
• The stones were crumbling, a casualty of pollution and also the black paint used around the clock dials, which didn’t allow the stonework to breathe.
  — William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• The tools wind farm owners have used to cut the casualty rate in the past are often high-tech, complex, and expensive.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• Horton, 61, and her son, Thomas Randall Horton, 38, who was with her that night, were among the casualties.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
• Back at base on D-Day night, he was told the Allies had suffered thousands of casualties.
  — John Leicester, TIME, 4 June 2024
• News of the high casualty rates had reached Russian inmates, fewer of whom were willing to join.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• While the largest number of casualties was in Beirut, many people were also wounded in the country's north and south.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
• Officials said the number of casualties could rise in the coming days.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
• Despite the immense cost and casualties of Putin’s war in Ukraine, his grip on his country remains firm, Vega comments.
  — Peter Bart, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2024
• Early last month, Cannon’s crew dove into an aquatic mass grave with millions of casualties.
  — Denise Hruby, Sun Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024