How to Use disaster area in a Sentence

disaster area

noun

• After the hurricane, the state was declared a disaster area.
• His office is a disaster area. How can he find anything in all this clutter?
• But this was Harris’ first visit to a disaster area as vice president.
  — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
• Law enforcement agencies may restrict access to disaster areas for the first few days after a flood or fire.
  — Lyndsey Gilpin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
• The private-source share of expenses likely will be relatively low because so few homeowners and farmers in the disaster areas had flood or crop insurance.
  — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
• Right, aerial view of El Rodeo, one of the villages in the disaster area.
  — Times Staff, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
• Now, paths are being cleared in the wreckage to get ships past the disaster area.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
• This isn’t the first time the group has stepped in for animals in disaster areas.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• In speech after speech, the United States is cast as a disaster area, ...
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 July 2023
• Despite a small improvement in 2021, the balance sheet still looks like a disaster area to me.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• It’s made the kitchen a disaster area and the nearby bathroom unusable.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Residents have not been allowed to enter the disaster area since the fires Aug. 8.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• There is not yet a plan to allow residents to return to the disaster area in Lahaina.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• For Trump, the trip Thursday is yet another visit to a disaster area.
  — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Across the disaster area, people could only wait for the waters to recede before getting a full view of the damage.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2020
• The tax expansion will expand if other counties are added to the disaster area.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
• Yahya Üstün, an airline spokesman, said on Twitter Tuesday that citizens can take a free one-way flight out of nine cities in the disaster area.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
• Mayor Bud Lewis of Carlsbad said last night that the city would be asking the state to declare the city a disaster area, so people who had lost their homes could get low-cost loans.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
• Wong is a Hilo native who lived only 20 minutes from the disaster area.
  — Christopher Dawson, CNN, 8 May 2018
• The impulse to limit foreign access to a disaster area can be born of an effort to avoid criticism.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Maui County did not respond to questions about the process or timeline for permission to enter the disaster area.
  — Karin Brulliard and Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Trump also announced plans to visit the disaster area on Friday.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
• This latest look comes on the heels—no pun intended—of the criticism Trump faced for wearing a black version of the same shoe to board Air Force One for her first visit to the disaster area.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2017
• The money in the fund can only be used if the federal government declares Dallas a disaster area, the statement said.
  — Juan Jaramillo, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2020
• In the case of Covid, the SBA determined the entire country was a disaster area, allowing every business to apply for these loans.
  — Allbusiness, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• Among those powers is the authority to say who goes into or out of a disaster area and to restrict movement within an area.
  — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2020
• President Jimmy Morales declared three days of mourning and toured shelters and the disaster area.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 4 June 2018
• Over time, teams mark routes in and out of the disaster area, building shoring with boards and other material to prevent debris from falling.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• As tourism comes back toward the disaster area, the conversation around tourism is unlikely to settle down.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• The story of the Erdem family is one of many emotional tales of human fortitude to emerge from the widespread disaster area.
  — Robert Badendieck, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024