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Example sentences for: disaster

How can you use “disaster” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

There have been at least 15 illegal shipments of oxygen canisters, says the paper, since the ValuJet disaster.
A recent test was particularly effective because it involved a comprehensive simulation of a real disaster.
The eerie assurance with which the authors insist that the Rules always work and that any deviation brings disaster is strangely nervous-making, like one of those chain letters that alludes darkly to people who dropped dead after failing to pass it on.
Another article calls the rebuilding after the 1991 Berkeley Hills fire an "architectural disaster."
"What should it tell Boris Yeltsin," it asked, "bearing in mind on the one hand its alliance with America, but on the other hand the pope's declared position against bombing Iraq, the widespread appeals for peace by members of the ruling coalition, and furthermore the still strong resentment over the tragedy of Cavalese [the cable-car disaster in the Dolomites]?"