disaster
Example Sentences
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Cyclone Senyar ravaged Sumatra in late November, killing more than 1,000 people in Southeast Asia's deadliest natural disaster for 2025.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
RuPaul’s affection for everything inane, disgusting and gloriously stupid lends itself perfectly to a disaster spoof like “Stop! That! Train!.”
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
This looming disaster has been 25 years in the making.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Indonesia's national disaster agency, meanwhile, instructed officials in the North Sulawesi capital, Manado, northern Gorontalo province and the Sangihe islands "to immediately direct their residents to evacuate in an orderly manner to higher ground".
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
We had to go on, but we knew that disaster could not be long in coming.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing disaster
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Calamity, Catastrophe, and Crisis: Disaster Words
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