Examples of how to use the word “disaster” in a sentence. How to connect “disaster” with other words to make correct English sentences.
disaster (n): (an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty
Use “disaster” in a sentence
| Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters. |
| Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters. |
| If that accident had happened in a city, it would have caused a disaster. |
| Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters.
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1. The party was nothing short of a disaster.
2. She cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster.
3. The sales campaign was a total disaster.
4. His robust strength made him survive the disaster.sentencedict.com/disaster.html
5. Last year’s cotton crop was an unmitigated disaster.
6. The region has been declared a disaster area.
7. Warnings of disaster may be overblown.
8. It seemed that nothing could prevent the impending disaster.
9. The flood is a disaster.
10. They’re heading for disaster if they’re not careful.
11. Tragic literature dignifies sorrow and disaster.
12. Does this augur disaster for our team?
13. One small error precipitated the disaster.
14. News of the disaster stunned people throughout the world.
15. Disaster areas will not cry. The deceased had gone to the heavens already; the survivors must continue to live on(Sentencedict.com), and to live more exciting. All of this will be over and our stength of them are rising .
16. The town was declared a disaster area after the floods.
17. The reason for the disaster was engine failure, not human error.
18. Only a few scraps of news about the disaster have emerged.
19. Parental love is the greatest.And in the disaster, our soldiers are like our parents, give our boundless love.
20. Survivors of the disaster who lost their relatives are much to be pitied.
21. After the disaster, victims were crying, parents were crying, Sichuan was crying, China was crying, Every Chinese was crying. However, Premier Wen said, «Do not cry, children, every thing will be all right.» Yes, we should not cry, because this world is full of love, because China is full of love.
22. It was the world’s second worst air disaster, a horrific re-run of the runway collision in 1977.
23. Nothing in life is despair, a series of disaster will be can’t withstand the sunshine nightmare, to be bumpy.Life is the dojo, alive is a kind of practice.
24. The president visited the region in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.
25. If the renegade clique of that country were in power , it would have meant serious disaster for the people.
26. The government has promised a full investigation into the disaster.
27. The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
28. He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
29. As long as two years ago, Mandelson tried to unpick the reasons for the disaster.
30. One hundred and twenty people died in China’s worst air disaster .
Used with adjectives:
«The city suffered an awful disaster.«
(awful, big, great, horrible, huge, large-scale, major, massive, terrible, deadly)
«It was the worst disaster in history.«
(worst)
«This project could be a possible disaster.«
(possible, potential)
«We are not ready for future disasters.«
(future)
«The unforeseen disaster surprised us.«
(unforeseen, unexpected)
«It became a global disaster.«
(global, national)
«An Earthquake is a natural disaster.«
(natural)
«We are not prepared for a flood disaster.«
(flood, hurricane, nuclear, tsunami)
«It was the biggest human disaster.«
(human, humanitarian)
«They’ve called it an economic disaster.«
(economic, financial, social)
«The hurricane was a costly disaster.«
(costly)
«The party was an absolute disaster.«
(absolute, complete, total, real, utter)
«His company was a business disaster.«
(business, economic, financial, political, public)
Used with verbs:
«We don’t know what caused the disaster.«
(caused, created, led to)
«How can we avoid disaster?«
(avoid, prevent)
«The police didn’t anticipate the disaster.«
(anticipate, foresee, predict)
«The ship is heading for disaster.«
(be + heading for)
«People have a hard time facing disaster.«
(facing)
«The city experienced a disaster.«
(experienced, suffered)
«The family has handled disaster.«
(handled, overcome, survived)
«The battle ended in disaster.«
(ended in, resulted in)
«Disaster can happen without warning.«
(happen, occur, strike, take place)
«The dinner turned out to be a disaster.«
(turned out to be, became, turned into)
Used with nouns:
«Stay out of the disaster area.«
(area, site, zone)
«The charity organization will send disaster aid.«
(aid, assistance, relief, response)
«Follow the disaster plan.«
(plan)
«He works in disaster management.«
(management)
«Our group has a disaster fund.«
(fund)
«She is a disaster victim.«
(victim, survivor)
Used with prepositions:
«It’s important to ask for help in a disaster.«
(in)
«The party was a disaster for the host.«
(for)
1.
» Ennin loved the game so that was a disaster for him, costing him another couple irons a year
2.
There are a number of NGOs doing good work in the field of healthcare, bringing up parentless and destitute children, care of physically handicapped, education of poor children, nourishment for patients and disaster management and rehabilitation
3.
For relative or friends, death is disaster; only to the soul death is a relief
4.
Stephen took one look at it and declared it a disaster zone going on to suggest he could get a decent bit of carpet to replace it
5.
Will he be able to save them from the impending disaster that looms in the corridors of the Boston Monitor newspaper?
6.
Will this be enough to protect him from the hatred of those he has disappointed? Will he be able to prevent the terrible disaster that looms in the corridors of the Boston Monitor? Will he run and hide or will he match brave words with brave actions? Sometimes knowing what’s coming next just isn’t enough
7.
I prefer to confront a natural disaster -a flood, an earthquake, a hurricane- than satanic humans
8.
Forest: If the trees are high and nice, you will inherit a fortune; if you are alone and gloomy in a forest, it indicates that you can’t distinguish who your true friends are; if the forest is on fire, prepare for disaster
9.
However, if you also hear thunder, disaster awaits you
10.
On the other hand, an angry of sick minister foreshadows a national disaster
11.
And into this disaster
12.
He had to find Alan now or this would become a monumental disaster
13.
As we walk round to the pub, he tells me about the project he is currently working on in connection with the ongoing disaster with the Arts Centre building alterations
14.
The girl yelled, the man screamed, the bull dropped and turned his head, twisting his horn out of the way of the man’s neck scant milliseconds before disaster
15.
considering the ring thing when disaster struck
16.
Justice to evolution before this world was forced to evolve thru disaster
17.
Disaster moves in painfully slow motion
18.
complete and utter disaster, that’s what it was! So
19.
When he was a shift foreman like he was in those days, signing something out of stores or letting an influential person make use of a body was not as great a disaster as it would be in his present position
20.
Right now, after this disaster, she didn’t think she could fit into the small town of Sinbara with Jorma around
21.
terms with the disaster which had befallen him
22.
‘This disaster only lasted a couple of days, but it
23.
As the monsters got wild this turned out to be a horrible disaster
24.
destruction of home or a disaster in the community, being seriously injured in an
25.
silence as we reflected on this latest brush with disaster,
26.
‘Well, that’s today’s disaster out of the way, anyway,’
27.
we had survived our last disaster of the holiday
28.
the meaning of a disaster after it happens
29.
Many tried to replicate them, but usually such efforts ended in disaster
30.
Her own numerous plots against him had all met with disaster while her anguish only increased with her efforts
31.
If they only took Alan, that was disaster for him, how much for her? She would miss him with anguish
32.
But considering her one and only mission had been a disaster in the eyes of the Elders, she couldn’t help but wonder why she had been chosen as this world’s Savior
33.
«We think that would be disaster here
34.
The disaster on Thrinacia will happen somewhere in the middle
35.
It was a bad foreboding of impending disaster
36.
He couldn’t get the feeling of pending disaster out of his gut
37.
Ship timbers scraped stone with a rending crunch, but Father managed to avoid disaster
38.
To dream of an electrocution indicates that the current course of your actions will lead to disaster
39.
Though the evening had seemed a disaster to Nerissa, Tragus regarded it as a great
40.
” ‘Disaster‘ was the word she was about to use, but then any occurrence that reduced the Naud, in her mind, couldn’t be deemed a disaster
41.
Two: It was a mutiny of some kind—a self-inflicted disaster if you will
42.
Before the Commandant in charge of the cadets, or the First Mate of the ship could even voice the order to reverse course, the nearest facility erupted in a fireball that looked more like a nova than a mining disaster
43.
collide and disaster could occur
44.
Examples of such locations are war zones or disaster sites
45.
Though long-lived and well-respected, the Jonat family ruled with force, and their wars in the wake of the disaster of the Prophets’ rule caused more than half of the continent to fall under Aeresan control
46.
Though Minorca has been twice taken, and is now probably lost for ever, that disaster has never been imputed to any neglect in the executive power
47.
Put simply, it’s a PR disaster and Earth Government want no further military involvement in the troubles there
48.
evening was a disaster, a write off
49.
It was a disaster, literally
50.
anything positive from this whole disaster, it was that this had to stop
51.
The evening had been a total disaster
52.
It was a disaster
53.
Eating was a disaster,
54.
As Assistant Attorney General under Clinton, formed the infamous wall between the activities of the CIA and FBI, thus contributing mightily to the disaster of 9/ll, without so much as an admonishment from her president
55.
And in every future, she saw disaster for this world, great armies massed across the Free Lands doing battle with Alit’aren gone mad from the taint
56.
That could end in disaster for us all
57.
Confederate raider in the Bering Sea was a disaster that could
58.
The dream of disaster: that meant nothing now
59.
It will still all end in disaster, he thought to himself
60.
not thus far resulted in disaster
61.
between safety and disaster
62.
Blackmail? What could she hold over both parties? Economic trouble? That would be a disaster for government and business alike, but she could hardly start a recession by willing one into existence
63.
We now had a recipe for disaster
64.
That wasn’t a disaster, as there were no windows in the building, but somehow I still kicked myself for attempting a break in at night without a light source
65.
And forgetting to load a ballistic round and firing the rifle grenade with a full metal jacket was inviting disaster and a severe fatherly talk
66.
Politically it was a complete disaster for Apartheid South Africa, such as the African leaders had hoped it would be
67.
The whole thing had turned into an unmitigated disaster
68.
If you are dating and your woman friend does not support your role as a father with your children — and — she is unwilling to see the light — then that relationship might be a recipe for disaster
69.
The effects of such a weapon are in some ways comparable to the Chernobyl disaster though in general the experts are dismissive of its effectiveness which they say is not deadly
70.
The fact that the disaster usually ended within a short period of the sacrifice strengthened their belief that this was a good thing to do
71.
It was and is a disaster waiting to happen
72.
Anything else is arguable and tempting disaster
73.
Madison’s leadership during the war, or lack of it, was a disaster
74.
From a humanitarian point of view, Teddy Roosevelt was a disaster
75.
What: The first Global Warming disaster and Global Warming refugees in the US
76.
Disaster aid, evacuation, and relief are all federal matters
77.
When he thought of Pop, sitting there hour after hour, day after day, watching the Cable News, with its litany of death and disaster, its obsession with terrorism, work-place and high school shootings; he guessed no one was immune from the paranoia
78.
They brought jobs back to the province, but they came using new agricultural methods that visited yet another disaster on the province
79.
The full impact of this latest disaster is hard to explain
80.
The Confederate alliance with “our beloved brother Adolf” will bring disaster
81.
brush with disaster in the whirling current at Ripple Rock
82.
ous waters, skirting disaster
83.
Lengthy embraces would be broken when sudden awareness of yet another potential disaster would cause one to stare into the other’s eyes at arm’s length
84.
Suddenly there was a feeling that the entire evening could turn into a disaster
85.
No amount of reasoning that he had acted for the general good, that he had diverted a future disaster, held any comfort for him
86.
As he stood upright with his senses on the edge waiting for the next sign of impending disaster, he could feel his teeth clatter upon each other involuntarily
87.
He only had eyes for the kid, sprinting this way barely a hair’s-breadth from disaster
88.
» Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster
89.
The worst was Katrina, with an estimated damage of a hundred billion dollars, the most expensive natural disaster in US history
90.
LP said, “Give this to your family and friends who have suffered from the disaster
91.
I suspect everybody learned some lessons from the Tron disaster
92.
Merv had done a great job restoring their home to something that almost resembled what they had before disaster struck
93.
He made a point of saying that, for every dollar that’s sent offshore, one dollar should go into an Australian disaster fund, to help those affected by flooding, earthquakes, wild fires and cyclones
94.
If this happened in other major parts of the globe, the rise in ocean levels could have outpaced the increase in the levels of the precursor (Black Sea) lake, setting up the conditions for the disaster described in chapters 8 “Where in the World is Eden,” and 10, “Noah and the Flood
95.
With a majority or super-majority, in the event of a major unanticipated disaster, spending could be increased by an amount that would not count against the originally promised spending limit
96.
But, compared with the Chixalub disaster it was like a pebble hitting the water
97.
There has been much debate of when in the geologic record that this might have taken place, but some assign it to a generally equivalent time frame as that of the Chixalub disaster
98.
I wish that I could have taken some justifiable satisfaction from this Roman disaster, but I was appalled by the tremendous suffering that all the people must have gone through who had been trapped and smothered in such a hellish burial
99.
The coffins were bought by the Thailand Tsunami Victim Identification centre out of the 88 million baht joint donation from countries whose nationals perished in the disaster
100.
The third generation had wandered far enough to set in motion the disaster and enslavement of the Assyrian conquest (722 BC)
A disaster is a serious disruption, occurring over a relatively short time, of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. (Wikipedia) (See all definitions)
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster blackened much of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, Professor Chung was determined to become Professor Clean.
SCIENCE
A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace reveals that residents living in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters continue to suffer from the adverse effects of radioactive contamination.
SCIENCE
New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait, a strong supporter of charters, warned on Wednesday that Moskowitz’s appointment could spell «disaster for the cause of education reform» by tying the movement to Trump’s administration.
EDUCATION
Of course, the event turns into a disaster.
MOVIES & TV
In fact, I liked the experience so much that I wrote a book about the whole glorious disaster that is us.
PARENTING
The row flared up after Nuttall admitted that claims on his website about losing «close personal friends» during the disaster were untrue.
POLITICS
«During the 9/11 disaster, our customers in New York City were able to make calls over the Internet all over the world,» says Richard De Soto, AltiGen senior vice president.
BUSINESS
We’ve had the Iraq disaster, failure of trickle-down, neoliberal economics and, most importantly of all, we’ve had 2008.
POLITICS
I’ve had a lot of success with their cupcake recipes and having had a couple of disasters with Nigella’s recipes before I thought it might be a safer one.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
We have all heard horror free dating sites uk stories about dating disasters, and you don’t want to be a victim.
DATING
Ambitious plans to teach degree courses online have been condemned as a «disaster» and a «waste of public money» by MPs.
POLITICS
Anyway, I went for it which was based on the historic disaster subject.
MOVIES & TV
The government would shut down because of the disaster created by Republicans in Congress.
RELIGION
While 16,000 people were killed by the natural disaster, a new analysis suggests that relatively few people will suffer serious health effects from the nuclear fiasco (see «Cancer risk lower than feared for Fukushima locals «-RRB-.
SCIENCE
Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening.
MOVIES & TV
Our areas of focus include hunger relief, disaster preparedness and relief, and building strong local communities.
BUSINESS
Besides the fact that the temperature was very low, a hard wind started blowing, plus some chaotic snow all around… the recipe for disaster.
FASHION
In the right home, a Border Collie is a marvelous addition, and can make a wonderful pet, but in the wrong environment a Border Collie can spell disaster.
PETS
The texts are all linked to the theme of extreme weather, with a narrative extract from «Blood on Snow» for paper 1, and non-fiction extracts from Captain Scott’s diary (1912) and Simpson’s account of his mountaineering disaster (1988 This could be ideal as a revision workbook or a resource for a unit of lessons.
EDUCATION
He can play as cb, lb and rb, but most importantly as lb.Monreal as back up lb in big games is a disaster in making…
SPORTS
Spradlin notes that corporations have less incentive to invest in disaster prevention, planning and remediation than in business growth.
SCIENCE
What we can do is make sure that if a natural disaster does occur, we are prepared.
MONEY
I knew very little about disaster resilience at the time.
RELIGION
The 2015 disaster killed nearly 10,000 people, with total damages estimated at $ 10 billion (50 percent of Nepal’s nominal GDP).
HEALTH & FITNESS
Dennis usually wakes to find what looks like a natural disaster the kitchen.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
Until now my yeast breads all ended in disasters.
FOOD & BEVERAGES
«We will help those affected by this terrible disaster,» she said.
BUSINESS
This can spell disaster for hemorrhoids.
HEALTH & FITNESS
Some changes to insurance offerings can come from such disasters, said Rocco Neglia, vice-president of claims at Economical Insurance..
MONEY
When asked to provide statistics about how many patients received methadone in hospitals during the disaster, neither Smith nor the two other SAMHSA colleagues on the phone could do so.
BUSINESS
So… the past earthquakes, tsunamis, and all other natural disasters were just random acts of violence from «God»… Everything after May 21st will be because of Judgement Day though, obviously.
RELIGION
You can’t say second place is a disaster, but it’s not what we are about.
SPORTS
A track record of poor corporate governance links directly to high-profile business disasters, says Paul Hodgson, spokesman and senior researcher for GovernanceMetrics International, a corporate governance research firm.
BUSINESS
5) United Way of Puerto Rico Pictures from our past work and distribution trips includes: All donations to this fund will exclusively support the victims of the catastrophic Hurricane María and Irma in Puerto Rico and provide relief and aid the communities affected by this disaster.
BUSINESS
… She connected to nuclear decay, local customs, policies regarding clean up after a disaster etc. (all things she is deeply interested in), and then she talked about her struggles in statistics and how applying the knowledge from chemistry gave context to what she had been attempting to master in statistics.
EDUCATION
Apparently the key people at this bank have knowledge of the impending disaster, and encounter some serious moral questions.
MOVIES & TV
Here are some additional photos of the disaster.
BUSINESS
In the aftermath of natural disasters, such as the devastating tornadoes that hit Moore and El Reno in May 2013, human beings weren’t the only ones who found themselves without a home.
PETS
If you need to make a claim after a covered loss, you’ll be grateful that you stepped up and made the necessary revisions before disaster struck.
MONEY
Not every new or less experienced driver has impressed, Lance Stroll has had a clumsy season so far and Antonio Giovinazzi impressed initially while stepping in for Pascal Wehrlein but had a disaster in China.
SPORTS
County Legislator Bill Goodman, 13th District, added «With recent flood disasters both locally and around the nation, being prepared is a necessity for our citizens.
POLITICS
This year he was full of wry witticisms about robots from space, Civil War veterans on Mars, vampires and werewolves in love, and what Adam Sandler really thinks of his audience, but he went on to examine how overblown failures impact your local theater in ways you might not have realized, and why trying to create a blockbuster has as much to do with politics or real-life disasters than anything else.
MOVIES & TV
Skowron has participated in AmeriCares disaster relief around the world, including in India, Cuba, Kosovo, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
BUSINESS
Barring disaster he will pass the 5th and 6th in Real «s alltime list this season, with Hierro at 601 and Gento at 602.
SPORTS
compared to American responses to other recent crises or disasters, such as the Haitian earthquake, according to Yang, associate professor of communication in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.
SCIENCE
The potential for the little finger, toes, arms and legs escaping and being tangled in the holes is tremendous, and any picture that necessitates wrangling a baby into and out of such an item must be doomed to disaster right from the start.
PARENTING
Approximately a month later, during the primary debate in Miami when explaining why he considered Common Core a disaster, Mr. Trump said, «I want local education, I want the parents and I want all of the teachers, and I want everybody to get together around a school and to make education great.»
EDUCATION
Kids who see disturbing images on TV or hear talk of natural disasters, war, and terrorism may worry about their own safety and that of the people they love.
PARENTING
Naturally, a wrench in thrown into their «happy» little pseudo-marriage: Another stranger comes calling, this one named Caleb (Chris Pine), a miner who also happened to be underground when disaster struck.
MOVIES & TV
When it’s not, it can be a chapped, caked disaster.
FASHION
- Use the word Disaster in a sentences
Sentence Examples
That much power in aggregor’s hands would be a disaster of intergalactic proportions.
Haley’s a disaster behind the wheel.
Why that would be disaster, my lord?
Bad weather leads to a mining disaster.
«What a terrible disaster hangs over us …
«Professor, maybe you will come with us to Prosca Palace and prepare the Countess for the disaster!»
«There is only one way to avoid disaster.
his coat was found in a boat drifiting in the waves in the big lagoon, we can suppose he was victim of a disaster and most likely drowned.
Helpless and defenseless people are stricken with disaster.
This woman brings disaster!
THE PROVOCATION TO disaster
Mr. Dumontier, a disaster!
What disaster, this war! All people are crazy.
Stoker modelled his shipwreck on an actual maritime disaster, and probably got the idea of a vampire arriving on a storm-tossed ship
20 men of the search parties have been killed, and 100 in the train disaster.
«Sister ship Leuana reaches scene of disaster in 90 mile gale.»
What’s another disaster, great or small, to me who have known it would disaster all my life ?
Oh, what if disaster came to you through me ?
Yes, and for Octavian, complete disaster.
You know what a disaster her schooling has been here.
That’ s when I’m at my best, with my back against the wall… disaster staring me in the face.
It is the worst disaster since Titanic.
He’s a seagoing disaster.
disaster! Complete social disaster! «A series of entertainments
I’ve lost my knife. What a disaster.
If you go on with this make-believe, there’s naught but disaster ahead of you.
The disaster at Caporetto was a nightmare five days old and now still through the village north of the Piave, deserters slunk homeward with no one to hinder them.
And I hope the same disaster will not befall me.
Because then I break it and will be a disaster.
I am sitting here, Mr. Cook, trying to figure some way Out of the blackest disaster that has ever struck down an innocent man since the days of Judas Ischariot.
disaster has overtaken your father and his army.
well, the benevolent spirits of land and water did not prevent disaster to our army on the China seas.
But need I remind you that my brother, S.B., has been connected with every major disaster… since the sinking of the Merrimac?
Wherever she goes, disaster follows.
Perhaps so, but for me, it’s a disaster.
You’re kind to put us in the same boat, but let me point out that you derived certain benefits from this «disaster«
We’ve been hit by catastrophe, by disaster. 50 kilos of anchovies quietly gone bad.
That much power in aggregor’s hands would be a disaster of intergalactic proportions.
Haley’s a disaster behind the wheel.
Why that would be disaster, my lord?
Bad weather leads to a mining disaster.
«What a terrible disaster hangs over us …
«Professor, maybe you will come with us to Prosca Palace and prepare the Countess for the disaster!»
«There is only one way to avoid disaster.
his coat was found in a boat drifiting in the waves in the big lagoon, we can suppose he was victim of a disaster and most likely drowned.
Helpless and defenseless people are stricken with disaster.
This woman brings disaster!
THE PROVOCATION TO disaster
Mr. Dumontier, a disaster!
What disaster, this war! All people are crazy.
Stoker modelled his shipwreck on an actual maritime disaster, and probably got the idea of a vampire arriving on a storm-tossed ship
20 men of the search parties have been killed, and 100 in the train disaster.
«Sister ship Leuana reaches scene of disaster in 90 mile gale.»
What’s another disaster, great or small, to me who have known it would disaster all my life ?
Oh, what if disaster came to you through me ?
Yes, and for Octavian, complete disaster.
You know what a disaster her schooling has been here.
That’ s when I’m at my best, with my back against the wall… disaster staring me in the face.
It is the worst disaster since Titanic.
He’s a seagoing disaster.
disaster! Complete social disaster! «A series of entertainments
I’ve lost my knife. What a disaster.
If you go on with this make-believe, there’s naught but disaster ahead of you.
The disaster at Caporetto was a nightmare five days old and now still through the village north of the Piave, deserters slunk homeward with no one to hinder them.
And I hope the same disaster will not befall me.
Because then I break it and will be a disaster.
I am sitting here, Mr. Cook, trying to figure some way Out of the blackest disaster that has ever struck down an innocent man since the days of Judas Ischariot.
disaster has overtaken your father and his army.
well, the benevolent spirits of land and water did not prevent disaster to our army on the China seas.
But need I remind you that my brother, S.B., has been connected with every major disaster… since the sinking of the Merrimac?
Wherever she goes, disaster follows.
Perhaps so, but for me, it’s a disaster.
You’re kind to put us in the same boat, but let me point out that you derived certain benefits from this «disaster«
We’ve been hit by catastrophe, by disaster. 50 kilos of anchovies quietly gone bad.
Definition of Disaster
an event that causes great damage or hardship
Examples of Disaster in a sentence
The bride’s rainy wedding day was a disaster that started with missing rings and ended with a run-away groom.
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Police have determined that the horrible forest fire was caused by teenage boys who let a small fire spread into disaster.
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When disaster struck, doctors in the area rushed to the scene to help the victims.
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Investing in the sinking business was a financial disaster that caused the businessman to lose millions.
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The hurricane created a disaster in the area, with most of the island’s residents losing their homes and access to food and water.
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Other words in the Neutral category:
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an expert in finance who predicts global economic disaster — эксперт в области финансов, который предсказывает глобальную экономическую катастрофу 
the disaster which then befell the human race — бедствие, которое затем обрушилось на человеческий род
an intangible feeling of impending disaster — неуловимое ощущение надвигающейся катастрофы
national disaster — национальная катастрофа
natural disaster — стихийное бедствие
to experience / meet / suffer (a) disaster — попасть в беду
to cope with / recover from (a) disaster — справляться с бедой
to avert (a) disaster — предотвращать беду
to invite (a) disaster — накликать беду
to cause (a) disaster — приносить несчастье
to court (a) disaster — накликать несчастье
feeling of impending disaster — предчувствие надвигающейся катастрофы
She is a walking disaster.
Она — ходячая катастрофа.
They’re trying to find a way to avoid disaster.
Они пытаются найти способ избежать катастрофы.
The whole affair was a disaster.
Всё дело обернулось катастрофой.
The dinner party was a complete disaster.
Званый ужин полностью провалился.
The oil spill was a disaster for Alaskan sea animals.
Разлив нефти стал катастрофой для морских животных Аляски.
We can learn / draw important lesson from this disaster.
Мы можем вынести важный урок из этой катастрофы.
The drought could spell disaster for wildlife.
Засуха может обернуться катастрофой для дикой природы.
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The new regulations could be a disaster for smaller businesses. 
The cuts in funding will be a disaster for the schools.
To have admitted this would have courted political disaster.
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