How to use disaster in a sentence

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More sentences with disaster

• I’m not putting you in charge again after the last disaster.From the entry after
• The conference itself went very well. The party afterwards, however, was a disaster.From the entry however
• We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.From the entry chart
• The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster.From the entry sos
• The natural disasters put downward pressure on the creditworthiness of the nation’s insurance groups.From the entry downward
• There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.From the entry sugarcoat
• He's usually in a good mood — the operative word there being "usually". Today was a disaster.From the entry operative
• He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.From the entry cook up
• Their handling of the recent diplomatic crisis was an unmitigated disaster.From the entry unmitigated
• Much of the central Gulf Coast was declared a disaster area after hurricane Katrina.From the entry disaster area
• I thought the reorganization would be a disaster, but you made it come together.From the entry come together
• The director came in for a lot of criticism about the way she handled the disaster.From the entry come in for
• The first night was a disaster, and the cast were mostly in tears.From the entry first night
• The government is putting us on a collision course with nuclear disaster.From the entry on a collision course
• You and Larry living together sounds like a recipe for disaster.From the entry recipe for disaster
• The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.From the entry factor
• Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.From the entry chief
• We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.From the entry miss
• Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.From the entry forestall
• Organized crime, law enforcement, warfare, nature, disasters, mythology, religion, and history are all common themes in the action adventure genre.From the entry action adventure
• I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!From the entry sponge cake
• The millennium passed off without any disasters.From the entry pass off
• The manager's half-brained plan led to disaster when carried out.From the entry half-brained
• Your actions have brought disaster down on us.From the entry bring down on
• Availability zones are typically geographically separated from one another, to prevent local disasters from affecting more than one of them.From the entry availability zone
• Our vacation was a complete disaster.From the entry complete
• The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophe.From the entry catastrophe
• Relief arrived quickly after the disaster.From the entry relief
• Many believed that the reduction in public spending was a disaster but the spin doctors presented it as a triumph for lower taxation.From the entry spin doctor
• Your room is a disaster area.From the entry disaster area
• Although the train derailment ended up not being very serious, the emergency services' response served as a dress rehearsal in case of a much worse disaster.From the entry dress rehearsal
• Peter Dutton was a disaster for the Liberals, as the election drubbing showed.2025 July 31, Michelle Grattan, “Grattan on Friday: Aggrieved Liberals stamp their feet, testing Sussan Ley’s authority”, in The…. From the entry drubbing
• The Moorgate disaster remains the worst ever train crash on the London Underground.2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash. From the entry train crash
• As a vehicle towards reconstruction, disaster tourism allows rapid recovery and further financially-aid programs for affected communities.2023, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar, editors, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism, 2nd…. From the entry postdisaster
• This restructuring is a slow-burn disaster for the funding of the Russian war machine.2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian. From the entry slow-burn
• Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 60. From the entry imagining

Meaning of disaster

1. noun An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
2. noun An unfortunate or unpleasant occurrence, especially one resulting from an accident or something going wrong.
3. noun An wholly unsatisfactory result caused by something going wrong or being done poorly; a flop or failure.

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Questions about disaster in a sentence

How do you use disaster in a sentence?

Disaster is used as a noun. For example: “People would suffer disasters when society's morality degenerates.”

What is a short sentence with disaster?

“the cake was a disaster.”

What does disaster mean?

Disaster means an unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.