How to Use casualty in a Sentence

casualty

noun
  • For me on my own, that was a mass casualty event.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Winik said the scale of the casualties could have been much worse.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Some cap casualties are the cause of that.
    — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Stem tetrapods were thought to be among the casualties.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There are heavy casualties on both sides.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • As homes shrink in size, hallways could be one of the first casualties.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 16 July 2024
  • There was no word on casualties.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Reuters has not been able to confirm whether there were casualties.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Which means there will be casualties.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 Apr. 2026
  • There were no casualties and the suspects have been charged.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 June 2026
  • The aloe plant on my windowsill was almost a casualty of war, so don’t be like me.
    — WIRED, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The casualty counts vary, but most say between seven and ten men died on the street.
    — al, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The high pitch siren of the casualty bots sounded off in the distance.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But what were the casualties of that mindset?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Names are listed by the day of casualty.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There have already been a few cap casualties.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But here the casualty and the transgressor were one and the same.
    — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • And the longer a campaign runs, the greater the risk of civilian casualties.
    — Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In the game of war, there are no winners, no losers, only casualties.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But one of the worst casualties of this war is compassion.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • So far, there have been no reports of damage or casualties.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 June 2026
  • The group said the number of casualties was likely to rise.
    — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • As of this writing, there have been no reports of casualties.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • If so, handshakes wouldn’t have been the only casualty of the virus.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The backlash could’ve worsened the casualties in the nine-year war.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Still, the standalone app now appears to be the casualty.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The release did not mention any casualties on the tankers.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
  • As workers seek to distance their lives from work, the work friend has become a casualty.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Children could be seen among the casualties.
    — Sami Yousafzai, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026

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