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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:

Historically, decisive security action took place only after a disaster had occurred or a specific plot had been discovered.
Rather than sell some of his copper at a loss, he chose to play double or nothing, trying to repeat his initial success by driving prices ever higher; since a market corner is necessarily a sometime thing, his unwillingness to let go led to disaster.
Historically, what has been good for Chile (Argentina's neighbor) has been a disaster for Argentina, and this works the other way around.
Another article calls the rebuilding after the 1991 Berkeley Hills fire an "architectural 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.