NOUN
- (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations
How To Use collateral damage In A Sentence
- In conducting it, care should be taken to avoid collateral damage.
- Physical collateral damage can always be fixed, or structures replaced.
- E-breakups are indeed cowardly, as they allow you to drop the bomb without facing the collateral damage, and they are stupid, as they allow your dumpee to forward your lame e-breakup to friends and associates all over the world.
- To minimize collateral damage maximum precision in bombing was required.
- The government denied that there had been any collateral damage during the bombing raid.
- I am sick of the term collateral damage when it comes to their lives being taken and when it pertains to Americans who are killed through acts of terror and hate, we label them victims. President Bush, the Iraqi people are not collateral damage they are victims
- We need to think of collateral damage more in terms of innocent civilians being killed, rather than reconstructing buildings used by the enemy.
- To minimize collateral damage maximum precision in bombing was required.
- Inert squash head ammunition would also be useful for punching holes in walls with minimal collateral damage.
- Hitting any non-military targets would risk 'collateral damage'.
