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
  • Would Daryl be okay, up there on his own with this crisis?
    Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Still, this is a national crisis, and more needs to be done.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • They were also meant to come to the rescue with their largesse in the case of a public crisis or calamity.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • So all of his failures lead to this heavy, heavy crisis of having to lose his very best friend, Jung-bae, at the hands of The Front Man.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The effort, a response to the 2008 global financial crisis, has been in the works for more than a decade.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Every month since — and four of the five months before — the crisis only worsened.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Nursing homes are not safe amid the world's climate crisis.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The same cannot be said of 988, the national mental health crisis hotline.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • And time is short to get the climate crisis under control.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The pair crossed paths when a crisis hit many neighborhoods in West Dallas in 2016.
    Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
  • 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
  • There’s a looming crisis in the crushing cost of elder care and the crippling effects of low wages.
    Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The country is already in the midst of an economic crisis.
    Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Mehdi El Arem, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • So how can parents, teachers and friends help girls through this crisis?
    Elizabeth Englander, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The hope is to turn the tide on an ongoing extinction crisis.
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The case underscores how much is wrong with the way the mentally ill are treated when in crisis, says Fieger.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And the news industry is in crisis in part because not enough people are willing to pay for it.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
  • After a few minutes alone, the singer and another woman carried the woman in crisis to a safer part of the bridge.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
  • What hunger in the first act does a second act satisfy; what crisis is resolved?
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Bird flu:Is chicken meat next for shortages and soaring prices with egg crisis?
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025

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