How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun

• Barnhart was the first casualty of the Reds’ cost-cutting measures last year.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2023
• Still, his campaign lasted only three months, an early casualty of Trump’s needling.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• Candles, flowers, photos of the victims and flags of their homelands mark a makeshift sidewalk altar and shrine for the casualties.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• Hezbollah said many members of its military units and institutions were among the casualties.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
• And both sides have already taken heavy casualties, consecrating the eastern front with too much blood to abandon casually.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 29 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens were two of the most notable casualties of the rule.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 20 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• Selig’s app is just one casualty of the coming changes.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 12 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Officials said the number of casualties could rise in the coming days.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
• Search and rescue teams were still working through the area trying to ascertain the extent of the casualties.
  — Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
• It was engaged in heavy combat and took heavy casualties throughout the war.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
• The mayor said the attack on Tuesday did not result in any casualties.
  — Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
• Putin knows full well where the supplies inflicting high casualties on his troops come from.
  — Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2024
• On civilian casualties in Gaza, the inverse holds true, with even broader gaps.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 3 May 2024
• Over the past few months, in a grinding back and forth measured by city blocks, Ukrainian and Russian forces have taken steep casualties.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• The war has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides, with most of the casualties being Palestinian civilians.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The sculpture was a mere plaster casualty amid human ones.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
• Dozens of ambulances crisscrossed Beirut’s streets carrying the wounded amid snarled traffic, while hospitals in the country’s south were inundated with casualties.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024