How to Use disaster in a Sentence

disaster

noun

• 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.
• Losing a kayak on the road would be a complete disaster.
  — Field & Stream Commerce Team, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• As any climate doomscroller can tell you, our food system is a disaster.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
• The speed with which Covid raced through the country in the past month has been a public health disaster for China.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• As the film reminds us, any number of iffy career choices, like that role in the cinematic disaster that was Sgt.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
• In the wake of the disaster, lessons have been learned, and steps taken to ensure Notre Dame’s protection in the future.
  — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
• Raphinha hasn't been a total disaster in La Liga with a return of two goals and three assists in 16 matches.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• In terms of climate change—the threat that the Biden administration has defined as existential—the war has been a disaster.
  — Trita Parsi, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
• Attendees’ desperate posts went viral, and the disaster spawned two documentaries and dozens of podcasts.
  — Jake Traylor, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The holiday season is here, bringing with it joyful gatherings, festive meals and the potential for plumbing disasters.
  — Earl Foster, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Dec. 2024
• The tsunami caused extensive damage to coastal areas and led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
  — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
• Hurricane Ian is the second most expensive natural disaster the insurance sector has ever faced.
  — Fox News, 25 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Or maybe Abreu was the lucky one to avoid being blamed for this Sox disaster.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 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
• Pity Martinez was more or less a disaster in his brief time in MLS.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Those of us who are concerned see two paths to disaster.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 14 Apr. 2023
• If the doors are left open, the mimizu will escape, causing disaster.
  — Kayti Burt, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• The disaster raised questions about why storm sirens didn’t sound.
  — Jaida Joyner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2024
• This could be a recipe for disaster or...disaster, but the fun kind.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 May 2024
• The simple fact is that this state and county have set themselves on a course to disaster.
  — Jason F. Poje, National Review, 11 May 2023
• There were some signs of slowing but not the disaster people think.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
• This year alone, Texas has already seen back-to-back disasters.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024