29 Verbs to Use for the Word casualty

On this occasion the Turks again suffered heavy casualties in men and lost many machine guns.

Lance-Corporal W.H. Whines of the Westminsters got along quickly and brought his Lewis gun to bear on the battery and, with an admirably directed fire, caused many casualties.

They captured the hill in ten minutes, only sustaining about one hundred casualties, and taking nearly as many prisoners.

Twenty thousand more were wounded making the total casualties of the Austrian defenders 44,000 men.

The machine-gunners of the 7th Mounted Brigade caught the force as it was retiring and inflicted many casualties.

One might think that the hyaena, the universal scavenger, would be as loathed by the native as he is by us whose dead he disinters at night, if we have been too tired or unable to bury our casualties deep enough.

We report something like three hundred casualties.

He had called the attention of two governments to this matter, and he hoped that before long there would be proposed an international congresssuch as the postal, telegraph, and sanitary congresses, and the international convention to fix the common meridianby one of the maritime powers, by which would be founded an international institution to diminish casualties at sea.

Mr. Henderson estimated the total casualties of the war at more than 45,000,000.

If it had been a simple question of helping forward a casualty to any one person, there was nothing in Dick's habits of thought and living to make that a serious difficulty.

And to aim at this would be a big and risky undertaking, involving perhaps heavy casualties and large reserves.

This meant many casualties.

Do not omit painful casualties, or unpleasing passages; they make the variegation of existence; and there are many transactions, of which I will not promise, with Aeneas, "et haec olim meminisse juvabit;" yet that remembrance which is not pleasant, may be useful.

The height of his spirits overlooks all casualties, and his boldness proceeds neither from ignorance nor senselessness; but first he values evils, and then despises them.

The best crew afloat cannot preclude all casualties, or exclude sleepless nights and cold sweats now and then; but a quick eye, a cool head, a prompt hand, and indomitable perseverance will overcome almost all things.

Here it might be learned how much fortune achieves in war, and how great casualties she produces.

The Scots had 8 officers and 93 other ranks casualties.

But the fact that Edith and Barbara Herndon were in the power of the scoundrel brought thoughts that cast a damper upon the little scrap of joy we derived from reckoning up the casualties of the enemy.

Most of the field rode boldly and well, yet I remarked one or two casualties: early in the run, a gentleman was swept off his horse by the projecting branch of a tree, under which he was going at a reckless pace, and another had his hat perforated immediately above the crown of his head.

Their patriotism and example gave a tone to the drafts sent out to replace casualties and the wastage of war, and were a credit to the stock from which they sprang.

I began to fear that they were gone, and my imagination ran rapidly over a hundred casualties and changes which might have come upon them.

You will naturally ask here, what precautions are taken to avoid such frightful casualties?

No sooner did we come along and install ourselves in the abandoned German fort than the 5th South African Infantry were in action at Kangata to win 125 casualties.

The victims of the diseases of civilization do not balance the casualties, &c. of a ruder state of society, as may be seen by inspecting the tables of the rates of mortality for a century past.

The supplies of bombs and small-arms ammunition were getting low, and to replenish them men had to expose themselves to a torrent of fire, so fierce indeed that in bringing up two boxes of rifle ammunition which four men could carry twelve casualties were incurred.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  casualty