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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Russia for months has sought to dislodge the Ukrainians from the region, including with North Korean troops, but until recently had made slow progress while suffering heavy casualties.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Conflicting casualty figures are not uncommon in the immediate aftermath of attacks in Syria's 13-year conflict that has killed half a million people.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025

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