Examples of 'collateral damage' in a sentence
Meaning of "collateral damage"
Collateral damage refers to the unintended or incidental damage or harm caused to people or property during a military or other violent operation. It typically includes civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure that was not intended as a direct target
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- Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that are the unintended result of military operations.
- Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.
- Unintended victims of an attack targeted at someone or something else.
How to use "collateral damage" in a sentence
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Collateral damage in the pursuit of a greater good.
There is always collateral damage during a war.
Collateral damage added value in the media.
Do not make yourself collateral damage here.
Collateral damage is bad for business anyway.
I will not be collateral damage in your duel.
Collateral damage from the multiverse collapsing.
There is no telling what collateral damage has been done.
So collateral damage works for us for a change.
It just seems to me the collateral damage is an unnecessary.
The collateral damage would be too high.
There was enough collateral damage already.
Collateral damage comes with the territory.
But it is indeed a collateral damage as you say.
Collateral damage is always unfortunate but unavoidable.
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We are at war and collateral damage will happen.
No collateral damage to the civilians or the pilots.
We do not know what the collateral damage is going to be.
The collateral damage will kill her.
New strategy to avoid collateral damage in cancer.
Collateral damage is also unavoidable in certain attacks.
Your friend is collateral damage at this point.
Collateral damage does not worry them much.
They are just collateral damage in this war.
Collateral damage has always been part of war.
There is a lot of collateral damage to innocent people.
Collateral damage to surrounding tissues should be avoided.
But there is always collateral damage in war.
The collateral damage of robberies and homicides.
We need to retreat and minimize collateral damage.
Sometimes collateral damage can not be avoided.
And the family was just collateral damage.
There is collateral damage in the cargo area.
And then there is the collateral damage.
Wanton collateral damage is one of our sins.
And hope that there is no collateral damage.
A little collateral damage never hurt anybody.
Everyone else just became collateral damage.
Financial collateral damage can be very substantial.
I never considered this kind of collateral damage.
The more collateral damage tends to arise.
We had hoped to limit the collateral damage.
Order a collateral damage assessment of the area.
Too bad about the collateral damage.
Significant collateral damage with devastating consequences.
He went from up close and personal to collateral damage.
Then the collateral damage would be incalculable.
Sanctions have caused some collateral damage.
This is only collateral damage in their eyes.
I was just trying to minimize any collateral damage.
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