Example sentences for: disastrous

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

  • In England, left-wing British playwright Harold Pinter has pronounced the bombing "misjudged, miscalculated, disastrous," and conservative historian Niall Ferguson scoffs at the campaign's inadequacy in a Financial Times op-ed ("Bleeding Hearts and Bloody Messes").

  • Today's numbers were not disastrous.

  • Also, yet another editorial urging the United States to attack Iraq: "A fig-leaf compromise brokered by the U.N. would be disastrous."

  • A few such painful choices rescued what might otherwise have been a disastrous first term.

  • This disastrous French naval defeat is known as the Battle of Les Saintes.


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