How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun

• Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens were two of the most notable casualties of the rule.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 20 July 2024
• Among the casualties was a 9-year-old child and four adults.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 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
• One of the main casualties of those layoffs were the many TV projects Pixar initially had planned for Disney+.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The victim, a 25-year-old woman, was the first casualty’s sister-in-law.
  — Amy Cassidy, CNN, 5 May 2022
• 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
• For days, the government in the battered port city was unable to give a casualty count for the March 16 attack.
  — Nebi Qena and Andrea Rosa, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The stones were crumbling, a casualty of pollution and also the black paint used around the clock dials, which didn’t allow the stonework to breathe.
  — William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• As workers seek to distance their lives from work, the work friend has become a casualty.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
• The tools wind farm owners have used to cut the casualty rate in the past are often high-tech, complex, and expensive.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• Prior to 2022, the number of casualties had remained in the hundreds, rather than the thousands.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• The death and casualty estimate was made by the Galveston Tribune, which rushed newsmen to the area.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The only casualty was the bomber and a donkey who had wandered into the frontline.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The dead included at least a dozen women, according to a partial casualty list published by the group.
  — Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2025
• His death marks the latest Kenyan casualty since the security mission arrived in June.
  — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025