How to Use collateral damage in a Sentence

collateral damage

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  • 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
  • Fear of collateral damage is putting the idea on hold for now.
    — Ian Talley, WSJ, 25 Feb. 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
  • Seems there is a lot of collateral damage around this kind of lifestyle.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Along the way, people have been a kind of collateral damage.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 June 2024
  • 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
  • Zoos have often been collateral damage in war around the world.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 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
  • The truth of the matter is, 2,000 pound bombs that are not precision guided inevitably lead to a lot of collateral damage.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2024
  • 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
  • Still, being able to move forward without collateral damage should be worth the effort in the end.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
  • 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
  • But even the smaller bombs have caused collateral damage.
    — Lara Jakes, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • 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
  • But the collateral damage from one of the fiercest bar beatdowns in recent history continues to spill out.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 May 2024
  • 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

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