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.
• Nursing homes are not safe amid the world's climate crisis.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Views on truth-telling are related to crisis concerns as well.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
• 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
• There isn't a single intervention which is going to get us out of this crisis.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
• At the very beginning of this crisis, the challenge was getting water to residents.
  — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The decade-long project found that more than one in three tree species are threatened with extinction, underscoring the scale of the crisis facing our planet’s ecosystems.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
• To my mind, the major reason fascism talk has lately reached a crescendo is that, for the first time in almost a century, liberalism finds itself in crisis.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Humanity’s abuse of chemistry, specifically the chemistry that makes up our atmosphere, got us into this climate change crisis in the first place.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Recent wildfires in California have caused death and destruction and brought the home insurance industry to the brink of crisis.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Not surprising, as American fingerprints are easily found on this crisis.
  — Thomas Sadoski, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The asylum system has been in crisis for years: Backlogs of claims have grown exponentially and Congress has no clear solutions.
  — Hamed Aleazizstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• But the United States has an endemic housing crisis and an anemic federal government.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Innovation provides some of the most hopeful solutions to solving America’s care crisis.
  — Elana Berkowitz, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Xi Jinping and his team will continue to exploit this crisis to China’s advantage, delivering just enough in the balancing act to play both sides.
  — WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024