disaster
Example Sentences
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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.
It is the most fatal aviation disaster on U.S. soil in 23 years.
He later called this “a singular act of presumption,” writing, “I knew almost nothing about the anatomy of disaster, the ways of Appalachia, or anything else that could qualify me as an expert.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
