How to Use crisis in a Sentence

crisis

noun

• She was dealing with a family crisis at the time.
• A year ago, both companies were in crisis.
• In times of national crisis, we need strong leaders we can trust.
• Most people blame the government for the country's worsening economic crisis.
• Arizona and the Phoenix metro area are in the midst of a homeless crisis.
  — Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
• Now the end of the crisis is dragging the drugmaker down.
  — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2023
• Every month since — and four of the five months before — the crisis only worsened.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The same cannot be said of 988, the national mental health crisis hotline.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• But in the District, police are the ones who get the call when someone is having a mental health crisis.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
• And this was spring of 2006 and the events that caused the global financial crisis were pretty well under way.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• City and state taxpayer funds to deal with the crisis have totaled nearly $700 million in the past year.
  — Andrew Hensel | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• Gold prices are up 8.2% this year, powered by a banking crisis and hopes that the Fed is near the end of its rate-increase cycle.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 26 July 2023
• No news should shock you, no crisis perturb and no words from a stranger need affect your mindset.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• This Canadian crisis has not been limited to the Great North.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• In short, the wine crisis that dominated the news cycle a few weeks ago, at least for oenophiles, is not going to raise the prices on our beloved bottles.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• The opioid crisis has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in three waves.
  — Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• The president, as the head of state and guardian of the constitution cannot allow such a gigantic crisis of the state and harm to the citizens.
  — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• So the crisis is everywhere—that’s why it’s called global warming.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
• But the government here has little authority to address the roots of the crisis.
  — Gabriela Sa Pessoa, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• Argentina is battling an economic crisis which could see inflation hit around 150% by the end of the year, one of the highest rates in the world.
  — Fox News, 14 June 2023
• Then there’s the climate crisis, which is compounding their pessimism about the future.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 26 July 2023
• As her show was nearing its sudden end, Williams shared with the world the details of her divorce and burgeoning mental health crisis.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• But in the nearly one-and-a-half minute sneak peek, which arrived just a day before the film is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the legacy Ferrari built is in crisis.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2023
• The proceeds of the auction all go to a worthy cause supporting the climate crisis, so consider this a win for Mother Earth.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2024
• Also in the news: The deaths of seven aid workers by an Israeli airstrike could worsen the already critical food crisis in Gaza.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• Before the crisis began, WFP was in need of about $32 million in additional funding to meet its goal.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• Officials in Canada say the impact of the news ban has been evident during the wildfires crisis.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• Beyond the Cybertruck, Tesla is both doing very, very well and yet somehow always in crisis.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• The economic havoc wreaked by the pandemic combined with soaring food and fuel prices caused by the war in Ukraine have created a spate of debt crises.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• The sun’s clash with Chiron stimulates crisis of faith.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024