natural disaster
Example Sentences
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Venezuelans in quake-affected areas have expressed anger over the state's response to the natural disaster.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
One contemporary Florentine writer considered it the worst natural disaster since the biblical flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
In most U.S. states, Indiana included, when a healthy tree falls onto a neighbor’s property during a storm or other natural disaster, each property owner is responsible for the damage on their own land.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
It really makes clear that the responsibility for fixing a natural disaster is mostly going to fall on the states.
From Slate ● May 21, 2026
Mom will be back any second, and if we don’t know anything about Hurricane Floyd, she’s going to make us recite every international election and natural disaster from memory.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
