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• The airstrike suffered minimal casualties because electronic-warfare aircraft were jamming the enemy air-defense radars.From the entry jam
• The autopsy found that the casualty had aspirated in her sleep.From the entry aspirate
• The casualties of the Second World War were so great that they are innumerable.From the entry innumerable
• The enemy's artillery inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy forces.From the entry inflict
• Three casualties were admitted with suspected fractures in their heads.From the entry suspected
• Subrogation is a staple element of the casualty insurance business.From the entry subrogation
• Some military casualties are by natural causes and accidents.From the entry natural causes
• Civilian casualties are just the cost of doing business when conducting a military operation in a dense urban enviroment.From the entry cost of doing business
• The engagement resulted in many casualties.From the entry engagement
• Israel routinely claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, has a tendency to inflate the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip.From the entry inflate
• You have the police experience, and you took care of a giant one without any human casualties.2022, Jack McGuigan, chapter 1, in Dog Walker III: Wedding Siege, [Chicago, Ill.]: Gorilla House, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry yōkai
• I've had publicity enough over my domestic casualty to last the rest of my life."2022 August 1, Emilie Loring, With Banners, DigiCat. From the entry cut ice
• U.S. troops suffered heavy casualties there against Chinese forces that had intervened in the war.2018 September 10, Phil Stewart, “First two U.S. troops from North Korean remains identified”, in Paul Tait, David Stamp, editors…. From the entry Chongchon
• The old club coterie has very little excuse, and its loss would leave few casualties.2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian. From the entry coterie
• By Tuesday, the same page no longer showed a total for nonmortal casualties.2007 February 2, Denise Grady, “U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given”, in New York Times. From the entry nonmortal
• Most casualties were registered in Sisačko-Moslavačka, Karlovačka and Požeško-Slavonska counties (seven persons per county).2002, Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-free World, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry Karlovačka
• Among the casualties of this brutal Gnomicide are Snow White and her Seven Dwarves.2001 January 25, Adam Rozenhart, “Site Unseen”, in The Gateway, volume XC, number 30, page 26. From the entry gnomicide
• An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."2000 August 20, Abby Ellin, “If at First You Don't Succeed, Celebrate!”, in The New York Times. From the entry dot-commiserate
• The agency quoted county authorities as saying the casualties included students and teachers in local schools.1983 April 14, “AROUND THE WORLD; Tornado Kills 54 In South China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27…. From the entry Jianyang
• Let’s assume that a rocket or gun line has got to the right position in the casualty.1977, Gerald Forsberg, “Stricken vessels. Ocean towage”, in Salvage from the Sea, London; Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Routledge and…. From the entry teach grandma how to suck eggs
• Only then can the casualty hope to heave over the actual tow-wire from the tug.1977, Gerald Forsberg, “Stricken vessels. Ocean towage”, in Salvage from the Sea, London; Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Routledge and…. From the entry teach grandma how to suck eggs
• Competition already is so keen that the great diaper derby already lists one big casualty.1970 December 15, “The Great Diaper Rash”, in James W. Michaels, editor, Forbes, volume 106, number 12, page 30. From the entry diaperman
• Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.1944 July 26 [1944 July 25], “Yank Forces Join on Shore Of Apra Harbor”, in The Washington Post, number 24,877, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1…. From the entry invade
• Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 28 July 1943. From the entry meticulous
• Of the 79 officer casualties 10 were "shell-shocks", or about 12 per cent, of the whole.1943, Arthur Graham Butler, The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918, volume 3, page 107. From the entry shell shock
• Eighteen other Japanese planes dropped sixty bombs on Shiukwan causing heavy casualties.—Reuter.1938 August 31, “On Chinese Front”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1. From the entry Shiukwan
• In his series of articles discussing a fire and casualty agent at work, Clayton G.1933, “Bicycles”, in The Spectator, volume 131, page 5. From the entry renovise
• Then you'll have to carry the casualty to the oont and bring him down.1914, Percival Christopher Wren, “Vultures and Luck—Good and Bad”, in Snake and Sword: A Novel, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green…. From the entry oont
• The poor condition of tofu dregs schoolhouses was used to explain the high casualty rate, but the statistic did not fly.2017, Paul Midler, What's Wrong with China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry tofu dreg
• And so long as the heists have no casualties, private jets will continue to bring supershoppers to Paris.2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times…. From the entry supershopper
• They fell from grace from normaldom and formed this group of unfortunate casualties of the market god's massacres of humanity.2011, Munayem Mayenin, Laranska the Anatomy of Fear. From the entry normaldom
• Chapter 8 recounts how motordom worked to reconstruct street casualties so they would no longer be the sole responsibility of motorists.2011, Peter D. Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry motordom
• The stemwares could have been broken while being transported to or from the house or they could be casualties of entertaining.1990, Douglas V. Armstrong, “Artifacts: Reflections of Past Lifeways”, in The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and…. From the entry stemware
• Miraculously, nobody was killed, but there was one casualty — the man who had been steadying the cylinder when it split.1972, John Drury Clark, “Halogens and Politics and Deep Space”, in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, New…. From the entry brouhaha
• However, no casualties in cars or men.1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436. From the entry catch a packet
• Bond reflected that they would probably play a pawky and nervous game and be amongst the early casualties.1953, Ian Fleming, “The High Table”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 72. From the entry pawky
• "When they left, the men of Ceres counted their casualties.1953, Isaac Asimov, Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids. From the entry Cerean
• He added the Nationalists had lost Pingli in southern Shensi after a battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.1949 July 14, “China Official Swears 'Win All Lose All' Fight”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 30.24-4383. From the entry Pingli
• The Japanese took Kweiping south of Kweilin after bitter street fighting in which the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.1944 October 17, “Japs Capture Kweiping”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1. From the entry Kweiping

Meaning of casualty

1. noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
2. noun A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
3. noun Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.

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Questions about casualty in a sentence

How do you use casualty in a sentence?

Casualty is used as a noun. For example: “The airstrike suffered minimal casualties because electronic-warfare aircraft were jamming the enemy air-defense radars.”

What is a short sentence with casualty?

“The engagement resulted in many casualties.”

What does casualty mean?

Casualty means something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.