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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:

Colombia's leading daily, El Espectador , bitterly lamented the country's unreadiness for Monday's earthquake disaster.
The prospects are grim enough that President Clinton took the unprecedented step of declaring Florida and Georgia disaster areas even before the storm arrived.
The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the “mandate of heaven” or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
The problem became an outright disaster on Christmas Day in 1953.
On his much awaited feastday held twice annually (the first Sunday of May and 19 September), the blood is said to liquify, even “boil”: When it doesn’t, disaster befalls Naples.