How to Use cannon fodder in a Sentence

cannon fodder

noun
Definition of cannon foddernext
  • The poorly trained forces are little more than cannon fodder.
  • In Ukraine, these former inmates have been used mostly as cannon fodder.
    — Oleg Matsnev Gray Beltran, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Still, the more men run from the draft, the less cannon fodder the Kremlin can send to Ukraine.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The Texas schools are just cannon fodder for Jalen and Tua’s Heisman campaigns.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Wright State finished its season 22-14, but the Raiders were more than cannon fodder.
    — Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Too often, the field gets lost in the folds, depicted as cannon fodder and not world-class players.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 6 July 2018
  • His was the generation that served as cannon fodder for World War II.
    — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In Tom Herman’s world, a walk-on isn’t another body to be used as cannon fodder for the program’s crop of four- and five-star recruits.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The right people were getting infected less, and the cannon fodder was leaping out of the trenches.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Albertsons drivers are cannon fodder in this battle, but many, many more will face the same fate.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The most likely path for Russian reservists is as cannon fodder.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The main cast once again got off without any major deaths while great newcomers were killed off like cannon fodder.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 July 2022
  • Citizens are being asked to risk their lives for this idea, and Russian boys have been turned into cannon fodder.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But according to the report, units that are less well trained and less well equipped are viewed as cannon fodder to be dispatched to attack Ukrainian lines in five-man teams.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
  • But when has a dictator ever cared about his cannon fodder?
    — WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Forces that were rushed to the front, like Wagner’s prison recruits, quickly became cannon fodder.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Osechkin says the number of takers of such offers dropped off at one point when inmates began wising up to the fact that they might be used as cannon fodder.
    — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, projections show what will likely happen: The boy appears in a soldier’s uniform with a rifle, cannon fodder for the war to come.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Fears of being 'cannon fodder' and a brutal response by police.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Soldiers are fighting to preserve monarchies and a class system that views them as little more than cannon fodder.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Instead the Assad regime has turned to Shia militias, often made up of Afghans drafted and organised by Iran, as cannon fodder.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Newcastle and Arsenal are on the agenda after that, and both sides have iffy records against Watford - could be ideal cannon fodder to get Deulofeu back on track.
    — SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • And all of them have seen their nationals slaughtered at a far higher rate than ethnic Russians during the war in Ukraine—turned into cannon fodder, once more, for a despot in the Kremlin.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Rumor had it that the Ukrainians were using volunteers as cannon fodder.
    — Seth Harp, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • For the first time in its history, UAB has the pieces in place to be something more than Power 5 cannon fodder during a bizarre season shaped by the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Moreover, there is a cost to allowing allies to become cannon fodder.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But there's still something agreeable about a franchise that makes racist idiots the cannon fodder—and if the entries keep improving at the same rate, part three might really be something.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Opposition to the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s was spurred by Russian families angry that their conscript sons were being used as cannon fodder.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The problem with this strategy is that, for Trump and his would-be cannon fodder alike, this whole exercise is substantially about feeling over fact.
    — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Across four locations in the Bakhmut area, Ukrainian soldiers described how Wagner troops at times appear to have been used almost as cannon fodder.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022

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