How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun

• Truth, as the saying goes, is the first casualty of war.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• The military warned residents to evacuate before the strike, and there were no reports of casualties.
  — Kareem Chehayeb, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• At a nearby hospital, many of the wounded were listed in critical condition as the casualty toll rose.
  — Riaz Khan, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
• This isn’t the first time the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade has suffered heavy casualties.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• As the defenders look at emptied or disabled launchers, the attackers press home with minimal casualties.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
• Biden and his administration feared the heavy weapons could not be used in Gaza or any populated area without causing mass casualties and suffering.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• Quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier, whose contract had expired, also is a casualty of this change in direction, the team announced.
  — Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2023
• After she, Frum and paramedics conversed, the fire department decided to evacuate the home and take everyone to the hospital, where a mass casualty alert was called.
  — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024