disaster
Example Sentences
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Michael Clark was representing the Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Lagoa, Portugal, when disaster struck and his shoe came off during the first 100 metres.
From BBC
Or is it just a warning sign that the next big disaster could be even costlier to them?
At first glance, this looks like a disaster for the climate cause.
Lifeguards, untrained in this type of disaster scenario, rushed to the scene, with some helping evacuate children from a nearby playground and others tending to the wounded.
Even when a particular engagement is a disaster, the action ultimately resolves with a moral clarity almost entirely absent from the messiness of my harried world.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
