Example sentences for: disastrous

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

  • And every gang wants its own argot, a test by which a potential recruit can be measured: if you don't know the language, very often you cannot get in; or, if you are already in, not knowing the latest key words can be disastrous for your credibility.

  • Several weeks ago I spoke with a New York City organizer about the disastrous newspaper strike in Detroit.

  • Another, perhaps less parochial, way to look at Global 2000 is to observe that the millennium is proving to be about 50 percent as disastrous as Jimmy Carter predicted it would be.

  • These new immigrants made a living from cotton production and collecting sponges, but after several disastrous harvests and a fierce hurricane, a group of Abaconians left to create a sister community on Key West off the southern tip of Florida.

  • Reviewers single out Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air , an account of a disastrous and deadly Mount Everest expedition, among the year's best nonfiction.


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