CASUALTY in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for CASUALTY, such as:

1. Our aim is to reduce road casualties.
2. Both sides had suffered heavy casualties.
3. She read through the casualty list anxiously.
4. The army were still fighting in spite of heavy casualties.
5. Every effort is being made to minimize civilian casualties.

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 Meanings and Examples of CASUALTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
casualty
 n.  serious or fatal accident; someone injured or killed in an accident
Classic Sentence:
1  But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up and down the quiet streets like darting bats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Every day she had read the casualty lists, read them with her heart in her throat, knowing that the world would end if anything should happen to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  The first reports were "Missing--believed killed" and so they appeared on the casualty list.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  When "Missing--believed captured" appeared on the casualty lists, joy and hope reanimated the sad household.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  She thought again of the four Tarletons and Joe Fontaine, of Raiford Calvert and the Munroe brothers and all the boys from Fayetteville and Jonesboro whose names she had read on the casualty lists.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  There were others who had read on casualty lists: "Missing--believed dead," and in those words had learned the last news they were ever to learn of men they had seen march away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
9  But this critical act is not always unattended with the saddest and most fatal casualties.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
10  They loved and sympathized with one another; and their joys, depending on each other, were not interrupted by the casualties that took place around them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  Training includes realistic simulation of casualty procedures.
2  She read through the casualty list anxiously.
3  The property sector was another casualty of the lurch towards higher interest rates.
4  On holiday weekends this city usually has at least one automotive casualty.
5  Both sides had suffered heavy casualties.
6  Every effort is being made to minimize civilian casualties.
7  The army were still fighting in spite of heavy casualties.
8  Troops fired on demonstrators near the Royal Palace causing many casualties.
9  The guerrillas inflicted heavy casualties on the local population.
10  Our aim is to reduce road casualties.
11  The same suspicions, particularly in relation to civilian casualties, doubtless apply to footage from Baghdad.
12  The explosion did not cause any casualties, but it was under the tip of our noses in a Shell residential compound.