How to Use cannon fodder in a Sentence

cannon fodder

noun

• The poorly trained forces are little more than cannon fodder.
• Still, the more men run from the draft, the less cannon fodder the Kremlin can send to Ukraine.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
• The Texas schools are just cannon fodder for Jalen and Tua’s Heisman campaigns.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2019
• Wright State finished its season 22-14, but the Raiders were more than cannon fodder.
  — Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• Too often, the field gets lost in the folds, depicted as cannon fodder and not world-class players.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 6 July 2018
• His was the generation that served as cannon fodder for World War II.
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
• In Tom Herman’s world, a walk-on isn’t another body to be used as cannon fodder for the program’s crop of four- and five-star recruits.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• The right people were getting infected less, and the cannon fodder was leaping out of the trenches.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
• Albertsons drivers are cannon fodder in this battle, but many, many more will face the same fate.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• The most likely path for Russian reservists is as cannon fodder.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
• The main cast once again got off without any major deaths while great newcomers were killed off like cannon fodder.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 July 2022
• Citizens are being asked to risk their lives for this idea, and Russian boys have been turned into cannon fodder.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• But according to the report, units that are less well trained and less well equipped are viewed as cannon fodder to be dispatched to attack Ukrainian lines in five-man teams.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
• But when has a dictator ever cared about his cannon fodder?
  — WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• Forces that were rushed to the front, like Wagner’s prison recruits, quickly became cannon fodder.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Osechkin says the number of takers of such offers dropped off at one point when inmates began wising up to the fact that they might be used as cannon fodder.
  — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022
• In fact, projections show what will likely happen: The boy appears in a soldier’s uniform with a rifle, cannon fodder for the war to come.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
• Fears of being 'cannon fodder' and a brutal response by police.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
• Soldiers are fighting to preserve monarchies and a class system that views them as little more than cannon fodder.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Instead the Assad regime has turned to Shia militias, often made up of Afghans drafted and organised by Iran, as cannon fodder.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Newcastle and Arsenal are on the agenda after that, and both sides have iffy records against Watford - could be ideal cannon fodder to get Deulofeu back on track.
  — SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• And all of them have seen their nationals slaughtered at a far higher rate than ethnic Russians during the war in Ukraine—turned into cannon fodder, once more, for a despot in the Kremlin.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• Rumor had it that the Ukrainians were using volunteers as cannon fodder.
  — Seth Harp, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• For the first time in its history, UAB has the pieces in place to be something more than Power 5 cannon fodder during a bizarre season shaped by the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2020
• Moreover, there is a cost to allowing allies to become cannon fodder.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
• But there's still something agreeable about a franchise that makes racist idiots the cannon fodder—and if the entries keep improving at the same rate, part three might really be something.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Mar. 2023
• Opposition to the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s was spurred by Russian families angry that their conscript sons were being used as cannon fodder.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• The problem with this strategy is that, for Trump and his would-be cannon fodder alike, this whole exercise is substantially about feeling over fact.
  — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
• Across four locations in the Bakhmut area, Ukrainian soldiers described how Wagner troops at times appear to have been used almost as cannon fodder.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
• Fighters say that Moscow uses units of former inmates as cannon fodder.
  — New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024