How to Use disaster in a Sentence

disaster

noun
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  • They're trying to find a way to avoid disaster.
  • The dinner party was a complete disaster.
  • The new regulations could be a disaster for smaller businesses.
  • The program examined several bridge failures and other engineering disasters.
  • While the events that led to the wreck are murky, the disaster has made some things clear.
    — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • In the area around the Fukushima plant the impact of the disaster is eerily clear.
    — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Storm Daniel was the worst disaster in Greece for 400 years, but could become the norm.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Both Ukraine and Russia have blamed the other side for the disaster.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • But this didn’t have to be a disaster, Ms. Williams-Butler added.
    — Dan Koeppel, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • And asking Davis to handle all of it could be a recipe for disaster.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The extent of the disaster came as a shock to Pfeifer and many other Sanibel residents.
    — Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Joe Biden and the Democrats who support him are 100% responsible for the disaster at the border.
    — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Both he and his son, Suleman, were presumed dead in the submersible disaster.
    — NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • In my testing over the past several days, the chatbot wasn’t a disaster.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • This year’s freeze isn’t the first disaster that fruit growers have endured in recent years.
    — Evan Lasseter, ajc, 10 July 2023
  • His solution, at least in part, was to promote one of the chief architects of that disaster.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But imagine how helpful that program would have been to address the disaster in Maui.
    — Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In terms of disasters, Rosa Lowinger prefers fires to earthquakes and anything to hurricanes.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Just before the apprentice drowns, the master returns to break the spell and prevent disaster.
    — Lyle Maxson, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
  • There is no relief, and then suddenly there’s disaster: The grid fails, snatching away the AC that’s staving off mass heat illness.
    — WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • If the answer is no, know how to connect with the resources available to support disaster victims.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • What lessons does the loss of the Titan submersible have for preventing spaceflight disasters?
    — Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Boeing flights resume After a month of disasters, Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft are able to get off the ground again.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Several unmanned test flights had followed in the wake of the Apollo 1 disaster.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But for now, just close your eyes and look inward like a satellite hovering over a disaster zone searching for signs of life.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • In previous crises, societies around the world learned lessons and worked hard to make things better before the next disaster.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Now 75% Off The Rescue Bots are always there to help save others from disasters, saving cats from trees being one of them!
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2023
  • And in a state that lives on the precipice of the next disaster, leaving a segment of the population without a way to call for help in an emergency is too great a risk.
    — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Even when opponents hope to avoid disaster by forcing Branch to field a kick on a bounce, the former five-star prospect is dangerous.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Insurance companies, like banks, are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand to make good on claims in case of disaster.
    — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023

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