cannon fodder
Example Sentences
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Was scheduling cannon fodder such as Missouri State a necessary step to reach the College Football Playoff or a cynical effort to conceal USC’s mediocrity?
From Los Angeles Times
To this day, an official cult of Stalin endures, deployed today to motivate Russians to serve as cannon fodder in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war.
From Salon
The Storm-V units have been used by Russia as cannon fodder, sent to stage assaults on the worst parts of the frontline.
From BBC
Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.
From Salon
The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
