How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun
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  • 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
  • Selig’s app is just one casualty of the coming changes.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • The casualties of last year’s storms was the last straw, according to Karazissis.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Add this to Quentin Tarantino’s long list of movie casualties.
    — Vulture, 4 July 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
  • 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
  • Officials said the number of casualties could rise in the coming days.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Search and rescue teams were still working through the area trying to ascertain the extent of the casualties.
    — Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
  • The mayor said the attack on Tuesday did not result in any casualties.
    — Daha Litinova and Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Putin knows full well where the supplies inflicting high casualties on his troops come from.
    — Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The war has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides, with most of the casualties being Palestinian civilians.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The sculpture was a mere plaster casualty amid human ones.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The crossing carried on for close to an hour, and when the dust finally settled, not a single casualty had occurred.
    — Jackie Caradonio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Even though there needs to be more aid, even though there needs to be fewer civilian casualties, the Israelis have, in many ways, been receptive to our messages.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In the worst bout of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah since their monthlong war in 2006, casualties have mounted on both sides.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The first report of casualties from the disaster emerged, with a mayor reporting three dead.
    — Vasilisa Stepanenko, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • Sobyanin said the Tuesday attack didn’t result in any casualties.
    — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The threat of mass casualties, and of desperate Palestinians trying to flee into Egypt, looms large.
    — Mairav Zonszein, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Washington can also take steps to reduce the risks of casualties.
    — Alexandra Chinchilla and Sam Rosenberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2023
  • How this can be achieved without horrendous casualties and suffering for the civilians of Gaza is not clear.
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Hamas is not going to seek to minimize those casualties.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Six months later, Moscow was on the defensive, engaged in World War I–style trench warfare, with casualties to match.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The ministry does not distinguish between Hamas fighters and civilians, but says about 70% of the casualties are women and children.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Variety described it as one of the first casualties of Showtime merging with Paramount+.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 13 June 2023
  • The number of casualties in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, located less than a kilometer from Gaza, has yet to be released, but there, too, the toll is likely to be high.
    — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The British Defense Ministry said in an intelligence brief this week that Russian forces have suffered thousands of casualties in the process.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Over the past two weeks, Biden has pushed Netanyahu on issues ranging from limiting civilian casualties to agreeing to a pause in fighting to free hostages.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Russia has not disclosed if there were casualties in that attack.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The bad news is that another major project on the East Coast threw in the towel, the latest casualty of skyrocketing costs that are pushing Biden’s offshore wind dreams out of reach.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2024

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