How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun

• Netanyahu was not there at the time and no casualties were reported.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024
• However, there was one major casualty that will raise (and singe) some eyebrows.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
• The Ukrainian casualty claims may be intended in part to unnerve the enemy.
  — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Neither Netanyahu nor his wife was home at the time of Saturday’s drone attack, and no casualties were reported.
  — Conrad Hoyt, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• My understanding of the laws of proportionality is that the number of civilian casualties needs to be proportional to the military goal.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 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
• 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
• This strategy filled the ranks for a time, but the flow of volunteers dried up as reports of the high casualty rates made their way back to prisons.
  — Jennifer Mathers, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024