How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Netanyahu was not there at the time and no casualties were reported.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Putin knows full well where the supplies inflicting high casualties on his troops come from.
    — Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Four years later, Ryan was gone, too, a casualty of Trumpism.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Among the casualties, another 10 died in a separate strike on a car in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza near the border with Egypt.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • There were no reports of casualties from Dahiyeh, where fears of Israeli bombings drive a mass outflow of residents each night.
    — Sally Abou Aljoud and Wafaa Shurafa The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024

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