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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bad loans caused the 2008 financial crisis, and SVB hadn’t made many loans in recent years. Bishop agreed.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• This Canadian crisis has not been limited to the Great North.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• If a President overstated the crisis, the order could be struck down in court.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
• Rwanda’s lead negotiator, Juliet Kabera, said there is still time to find common ground, but her country will accept only a treaty that has the strength, ambition and accountability to solve the crisis.
  — Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
• Trump’s first administration tried — and failed — to wrest Fannie and Freddie from the government conservatorship that’s been in place since the 2008 financial crisis.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024