How to Use collateral damage in a Sentence

collateral damage

noun

• 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
• Some of them are children of the victims, ‘the collateral damage’ of the drug war.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
• Fear of collateral damage is putting the idea on hold for now.
  — Ian Talley, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2022
• The brewers are collateral damage in a trade war that doesn’t have much to do with them.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• And as in the wild, wild West, there is likely to be collateral damage.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2021
• Children are the collateral damage in the plan to get Sam back to Osea.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• 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
• All this could be fixed, but there would be some collateral damage.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• Zoos have often been collateral damage in war around the world.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
• Most in the media will trumpet the wage-increase progress, not the hard-to-measure collateral damage.
  — WSJ, 28 June 2019
• Also, the lack of care, seeming care, for collateral damage, if things go wrong, has been a big contention for them.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Now there is evidence that the virus causes collateral damage to the heart.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2020
• And keep in mind, when the tables turn, collateral damage is inevitable.
  — Mellody Hobson and John W. Rogers Jr., WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Hong Kong is in the midst of a perfect storm of a pandemic, social unrest and collateral damage from a trade war.
  — Justin Doebele, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Farmers and factories were part of the collateral damage from the volley of tariffs as the two largest countries in the world jockeyed for an edge.
  — Josh Boak, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• The collateral damage has typically been deemed worth it though, because when a treatment works, the cancer is destroyed and the patient lives.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2024
• But there’s a surprising amount of collateral damage here, too.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025