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
• As to collateral damage, the Uvalde shooter seems to have craved more of it, not less.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022
• 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
• The collateral damage of each murder attempt is, for the most part, a body.
  — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Seems there is a lot of collateral damage around this kind of lifestyle.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But the risks to Ukrainian culture are more than mere collateral damage.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022
• 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
• With a thriller’s pace, the play muses on guilt, intractable conflict and collateral damage.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
• The reasons for the slowdown are straightforward, collateral damage of all the progress made on other Covid fronts.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
• But the collateral damage from the sanctions has been wider than expected.
  — Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2022
• In order to grow, the company has to reinvent itself, and there will be a lot of collateral damage when that happens.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• And finally, be aware of the collateral damage around these deadly events.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• The effects will spread far and wide, but the ripples will hit China’s neighbors first—and perhaps hint at how bad the collateral damage farther afield could be.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• The collateral damage to Pivetta’s success was a spent bullpen.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Discuss with each of them ways to minimize the collateral damage.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• If this is right, Block is so bad at policing its own users that Dorsey himself is collateral damage in scamming.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
• As the third Captain America film, there's pressure to hold the actions of the Avengers and their collateral damage accountable.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 13 May 2022
• One of these women was the target, the others likely collateral damage.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
• As the Grammys have worked strenuously to move out of the geriatric stance that marred much of the awards’ first three decades, musicals have been a victim of collateral damage.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022
• To avoid collateral damage, the R9X is designed to kill a single human being with what is called a kinetic or hit-to-kill design.
  — Wyatt Mason, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• The schools bear the burden of the impact of the exposure to social media, including the mental health toll as well as other collateral damage, the suit alleges.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• There are the flight romantics, and there are their victims down below—collateral damage of the pilots’ daydreams.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 June 2022
• In the meantime, the question of how to avoid the collateral damage of drug use has only grown more urgent: Opioids have become the leading cause of child poisonings in the United States.
  — Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• But in almost every case, these cuts will result in collateral damage to villages and fields.
  — Nazish Brohi, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Mother must give up her daughter in order to keep the newborn from becoming collateral damage.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024