How to Use collateral damage in a Sentence

collateral damage

noun

• Benson has the shot but doesn’t take it, too worried that Stabler will become collateral damage.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
• Nobody wanted to sit next to that division head at the executive committee meeting for fear of collateral damage.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 8 May 2021
• Instead, the finale reiterates that the true focus of the series is on the lives and relationships set to become those battles’ collateral damage.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, low natural gas prices have had some collateral damage for nuclear power, the largest source of clean electricity in the US.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
• Remote learning—a hurdle that’s placed millions of children in front of screens this past year, and heightened their sense of solitude—likely bears at least some of the blame, a sort of collateral damage from the coronavirus.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
• By the end of most of them, blood is on the floor, and the collateral damage is steep.
  — Mark Harris Keita Morimoto, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Fear of collateral damage is putting the idea on hold for now.
  — Ian Talley, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2022
• And as in the wild, wild West, there is likely to be collateral damage.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2021
• Winning four games in four days is a big ask, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be collateral damage along the way.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• Seems there is a lot of collateral damage around this kind of lifestyle.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
• Along the way, people have been a kind of collateral damage.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 June 2024
• If the missile can’t find the target, it can be assigned a crash point so as not to risk collateral damage.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2023
• But in the meantime, there could be some collateral damage.
  — Alex Tapscott, Fortune, 28 June 2022
• Zoos have often been collateral damage in war around the world.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
• And with the local tech world such an easy target for snark and scorn, no wonder the lush rooftop suffers collateral damage.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2022
• All these headwinds caused collateral damage to the wealth of this year’s listees.
  — Justin Doebele, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• This has all been a huge turn-on for them, the collateral damage not even worth considering.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
• That would allow for less collateral damage to the body and more of a focused treatment for cancer.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Nov. 2021
• But the risks to Ukrainian culture are more than mere collateral damage.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• The truth of the matter is, 2,000 pound bombs that are not precision guided inevitably lead to a lot of collateral damage.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2024
• Through no choice of their own, kids are too often the collateral damage when those adults become lost in ther own chaotic lives.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• With a thriller’s pace, the play muses on guilt, intractable conflict and collateral damage.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• Still, being able to move forward without collateral damage should be worth the effort in the end.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
• The reasons for the slowdown are straightforward, collateral damage of all the progress made on other Covid fronts.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
• But the collateral damage from the sanctions has been wider than expected.
  — Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2022
• In order to grow, the company has to reinvent itself, and there will be a lot of collateral damage when that happens.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• And finally, be aware of the collateral damage around these deadly events.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• Within the first 10 days or so, the immune system eliminates the virus, but this process can cause collateral damage.
  — Patrick Jackson, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
• The effects will spread far and wide, but the ripples will hit China’s neighbors first—and perhaps hint at how bad the collateral damage farther afield could be.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• But even the smaller bombs have caused collateral damage.
  — Lara Jakes, New York Times, 8 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024