Example sentences for: disastrously

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

  • There is, of course, an easily crossed line between confident optimism and arrogant jingoism, and that line was sometimes crossed--by Reagan himself and by many others--in the '80s (just as it was, much more disastrously, by many Democrats in the '60s).

  • But this course would still be risky, in light both of the difficulties already mentioned and of the danger that U.S. operations might fail disastrously.

  • Microsoft's argumentativeness has disastrously overshadowed its arguments.

  • The Turkish earthquake of August 17 and its disastrously bungled relief effort--the official death toll now stands at 17,997 --is a depressingly familiar story.

  • These initiatives aren't trying to eliminate all legal gambling in their states--prohibition has been a disastrously unsuccessful strategy in the gambling wars.


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