emergency

Example Sentences

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Nearly half the states have declared emergencies, and schools across the country are already canceling classes in anticipation of the storm continuing into Monday.

From BBC

Add weather-caused plant outages, and you have all the ingredients for a grid emergency.

From The Wall Street Journal

Multiple areas declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was expelled from India at 24 hours' notice in 1975 after the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, ordered a state of emergency.

From BBC

They went to a tiebreak and it was finely poised at 3-3 when a medical emergency in the crowd brought a halt to play for about 15 minutes.

From Barron's