disaster
Example Sentences
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The natural disaster killed more than 640 people, and affected more than 10 percent of Sri Lanka's population.
From Barron's
Finally, where we were our disaster response had kind of completed itself.
From BBC
In this triptych, Marat’s martyrdom is a muted centerpiece between grand hope and grander disaster.
“What Cuba is going through—a phenomenon I call demographic hollowing out—is nothing less than a humanitarian disaster only seen in countries in armed conflict,” he said.
He knew Joshua was the man under pressure here: If the former Brit wonder didn’t mush Paul into the ropes, it would be considered an embarrassing disaster.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
