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How to use the word disaster in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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An explosion or spillage from the tanker would not only result in an environmental disaster but also inflict significant damage on economic activities.

– Ahmed Nagi

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

Ms. Notley likes to show grainy videos of things I said while I was on radio and the reason she does that is she doesn’t want to run on her record, and the reason she doesn’t want to run on her record is it was an absolute disaster.

– Danielle Smith

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

I just cannot believe that they would let such a major, major disaster happen.

– Christine Lagarde

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are communities that have suffered disaster after disaster after disaster, and the toll on the people and the community increases each time that happens, we need to start integrating community-based organizations into the global emergency management structure.

– Arthur DelaCruz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we need to quit being uncomfortable talking about the intersection of climate change, racism, and disasters, the reality is we have long systemic racist problems across our country, and because of these things, when a disaster comes, it’s much more devastating.

– Sally Ray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What you don’t want is an emergency replacement of your CEO, because that could be a disaster, you don’t want to throw the company into more chaos, which could happen if there’s a vacuum at the top.

– James Reda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[The Fed is] right to be confident that one of the things that’s going to have to happen to get inflation back down to a normal, stable level is to get job growth to a normal, sustainable level, but if the Fed’s actions resulted in a slower labor market, then inflation stayed high — that would be a disaster.

– Wendy Edelberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When people are having to surrender their animals for economic reasons or because they’re in the middle of a horrible disaster or war zone area, that’s a people problem ; this is not some issue that is not relevant to people, this is bigger than dogs or cats in shelters. It’s about the people who love them.

– Kitty Block

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The impending disaster is one that will threaten Turkey’s national security, it is not only a threat to Istanbul or the Marmara region. It is a threat to Turkey’s future, its economy and its place in the world.

– Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s potentially a disaster of large magnitude, and additional support will be needed.

– Guy Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some point we are all compelled to take pause and reflect on the reality that unsubstantiated, temporally aged, and concurrent use of social media to incite a ‘Me Too’ call-to-arms runs afoul of every constitutional safeguard we have always held so dear. Superimposing today’s mores on erroneous recitals of acts of yesteryear is a recipe for disaster for both the accused and the accuser.

– Jennifer Shahade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do not recall… any economic disaster at this level in the history of the Republic of Turkey.

– Arda Tunca

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It should be treated as a routine tactic rather than a harbinger of disaster.

– Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They haven’t just survived the worst humanitarian disaster in their country’s history, they’ve been suffering war crimes and have been failed by the international community over and over again, at the very least, we need to provide them the humanitarian aid to help them survive, when many won’t survive even another day.

– Mouaz Moustafa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Absolutely, when an incident like this happens, it brings all the issues to light, how unsafe the rail industry truly is. I didn’t think we had any chance before this. The railroads and AAR do a very good job of lobbying in DC. So generally it’s difficult to get people to vote for something like this rule. But sometimes it takes a disaster to drive home the point. Any time you turn the TV on, there’s still an issue. It’s not going away.

– Jeremy Ferguson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason to continue testing – at least at some intervals after the event – in establishing those trends, part of that is really for communication purposes, to really reassure the residents that you know the level and explain to them where the levels after the disaster were as compared to some sort of a baseline.

– Ivan Rusyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m 3 strikes, wallace s**t debate[.] Election night a disaster[.] Now this BS? Nope. Not gonna fly. Did I mention Cavuto?

– Sean Hannity

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The state of Florida is currently in a state of emergency because of the ineptness and the incompetence of the federal government when it comes to immigration policy, in fact, I would say that someone should declare the federal government itself its own disaster area.

– Blaise Ingoglia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

FEMA created all these rules, and all these processes and all these things, the hoops that people have to jump through to get their assistance, when you’re in a disaster, you need help right away. You don’t need help three months from now.

– Brian Hamman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I also talked with AFAD [the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency in Turkey], and they helped as much as they could. But they said they could not provide an excavator to that area.

– Mesut Hancer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That is a recipe for disaster, we’ve seen it happen before. You could n’t fill seats. You lowered standards. And now you’ve got scandal and use of force. And when you look at the individuals involved you say, we never would have hired this guy once upon a time.

– Kenneth Corey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The terrible spill now is, of course, a coincidence. But it plays in our minds like life imitating art, which was imitating life, and on and on, because, as DeLillo suggests in ‘White Noise’ as well, we have unfortunately become too acquainted with the mediated language and enactment of disaster.

– Jesse Kavadlo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In all the years I’ve covered war here, I’ve never seen anything like it, it’s a disaster. Paramedics and fire fighters are trying to help but unfortunately there is too much for them to deal with. They can’t handle it all.

– Khalil Ashawi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky.

– Ryan Quarles

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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