How to use disastrous in a sentence

More sentences with disastrous

• Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.From the entry drive
• "Your decisions," she opined, "have been unfailingly disastrous for this company."From the entry opine
• This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous.From the entry harvest
• At this point black makes a disastrous move.From the entry black
• We check everything because an inadvertent error could be disastrous.From the entry inadvertent
• It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.From the entry fiddling
• The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.From the entry exclusive
• Offering refuge to the Pocassets turned out to be disastrous for the Narragansetts.2018, Pauline Turner Strong, Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives…. From the entry Pocasset
• We’d discovered that together during a disastrous fifth-grade class trip to a small zoo called Reptiland.2017, Bethany Blake, chapter 36, in Death by Chocolate Lab (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery), Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press Large Print…. From the entry chelonaphobia
• When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.2013, Daniel Potter, Jennifer Hanin, What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant. From the entry mispromote
• Consider the heartache that could be avoided by thinking twice about the potentially disastrous effects of cyberflirting.2008, Jan Silvious, Smart Girls Think Twice. From the entry cyberflirting
• Riding a bike into fesh-fesh is a very trying, if not disastrous, experience.2008, Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq, To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle. From the entry fesh-fesh
• Musturbation makes us too sensitive to failure and I-can't-stand-it-itis makes even minor problems seem disastrous.2003, Julia Russell, Matt Jarvis, Angles on Applied Psychology, →ISBN. From the entry musturbation
• A colleague at Oxford had once been word-processing during a storm with disastrous results.2000, Catherine Fox, chapter 9, in Love for the Lost, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry word-process
• The medicine man, remembering the previous winter's disastrous prediction, decided to cover himself.1994, Mike Hayes, Tell Us Anothree! More yarns from all around Australia, Sydney: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, published 2001…. From the entry medicine man
• Noninclination toward disastrous acts can be caused by aversion, which prevents the agent from undertaking any activity.1990, Harold G. Coward, K. Kunjunni Raja, The Philosophy of the Grammarians, volume 5, page 266. From the entry noninclination
• Any hesitation or wavering, any false step, any sign of self-doubt, could have been disastrous.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry self-doubt
• Often attractive, they can be overraked and then the result may appear disastrous.1967, J. Anthony Hind, Ships' Gear, page 491. From the entry overrake
• To be lured into his shop for a convivial spot was disastrous.1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 41. From the entry spot
• His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30. From the entry coextensive
• With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 556. From the entry volcanic
• Malaysia's drive to turf out illegal foreign workers turns disastrous.2002 September 9, “Malaysia Gives Illegals the Boot”, in Time. From the entry turf out
• This defeat turned out to be disastrous for the Ghassanids.1999, Glen Warren Bowersock, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 469. From the entry Ghassanian
• The summer has been a good one climatically, even if it has been a disastrous one in some other ways.1982 January 18, Graham Bound, “The Fierce Falklands Climate”, in The Penguin News, Stanley, Falkland Islands: Graham Bound, archived from…. From the entry climatically
• The navy of the Nguyen Van Thieu Regime even fought with us at Hsi-sha, ending in a disastrous defeat for them.1979, “Problems with Socialist Countries”, in King C. Chen, editor, China and the Three Worlds: A Foreign Policy Reader, M.E. Sharpe…. From the entry Nan-sha
• Chingchou Prefecture, comprising several counties in Hupei Province, suffered a disastrous three years, and its tribulations were not unique.1963, Robert S. Elegant, “The Rich Impoverished, the Poor Starving”, in The Centre of the World: Communism and the Mind of China, London…. From the entry unprecedently
• There was a disastrous incident at Kakkot where we almost came to blows with the yakmen and their wives.1961, Ladies' Alpine Club, page 13. From the entry yakman
• For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.2024 August 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?”, in The Christian…. From the entry malfeasance
• Not all of Ransom's changes are disastrous, some improve, almost all show surprising ways in which passages can be turned into variations.2022, Robert Lowell, Memoirs. From the entry misrevise
• Then a disastrous back-pass from Christopher Samba presented Drogba with a gilt-edged chance but the Ivorian's shot was saved by Robinson with his legs.2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 2 -03 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC. From the entry gilt-edged
• Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 709. From the entry counterweigh
• All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130. From the entry bogan
• The tie-up hit at the height of the wheat harvest and trade spokesmen said any delays in moving the grain to storage could be disastrous.1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3. From the entry tie-up
• Yet for such crucial purposes as bringing about a war or exploiting an economic situation, this was manifestly a quite disastrous degree of foolability.1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The London Conference: The Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; the Spread of Dictatorships…. From the entry foolability
• Twenty-six years later occurred the disastrous fire in which so many of the Cottonian MSS. were either destroyed or, as the Beowulf MS., damaged.1914, A.J. Wyatt and R.W. Chambers, Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1968, page x. From the entry Cottonian
• Anything more disastrous cannot be imagined.1906 June 19, “How to Dress When Facing the Camera”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 67, number 169, picture section, page 3. From the entry be-glassed
• After intelligence indicated that the Germans were using the unshelled route almost exclusively, Uniacke would quickly shift all his guns there, with disastrous effects for the Germans.2013, Spencer C. Tucker, The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia. From the entry unshelled
• Attempts to ‘unify’ the Hindus into being Indian rashtravadis are bound to produce similarly disastrous results, as we can see from the continuous ethnic strife in Pakistan.1998, Madhu Kishwar, Religion at the service of nationalism and other essays, Delhi: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 274, →ISBN. From the entry rashtravadi
• But the uniquely disastrous effect of Catholic policy in causing a schism between Bogomilist Bosnia and Catholic Croatia soon was to manifest itself in the fight over Tvrdko's inheritance.1964, Stanko Guldescu, History of Medieval Croatia, page 256. From the entry Bogomilist
• With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark' it.1954, Peter Russell, Nine. From the entry bebark

Meaning of disastrous

1. adjective Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
2. adjective Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

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Questions about disastrous in a sentence

How do you use disastrous in a sentence?

Disastrous is used as an adjective. For example: “Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.”

What is a short sentence with disastrous?

“Anything more disastrous cannot be imagined.”

What does disastrous mean?

Disastrous means of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.