DISASTROUS in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for DISASTROUS, such as:
1. Hunger would interfere with me disastrously.
2. This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
3. A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars.
4. This decision will have a disastrous impact on foreign policy.
5. The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
2. This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
3. A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars.
4. This decision will have a disastrous impact on foreign policy.
5. The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
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Meanings and Examples of DISASTROUS
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disastrous
a. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Its light favored Blucher's ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre.
2 This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.
3 It may be seen by these disastrous details that desolation reigned in the community.
4 The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love.
5 He was writing now a new chapter on the causes of the present disastrous condition of agriculture in Russia.
6 In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.
7 The swirling body of blue men came to a sudden halt at close and disastrous range and roared a swift volley.
8 The child was sleeping soundly; but her imagination of possibly disastrous events at her home, the predominance within her of the unseen over the seen, agitated her beyond endurance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
9 At the present instant one of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only I can stop a disastrous scandal.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
10 In any of these eventualities the flank march that brought salvation might have proved disastrous.
11 Nothing more stupid than that could have been devised, or more disastrous for the army, as the sequel showed.
12 The confused cry came to him borne in blind terror down the breeze, and his startled ears caught the echoing tumult and disastrous murmur of the town.
13 Dismay not my terrors, disastrous birds; I know these beating wings, and the sound of death, nor do I miss high-hearted Jove's haughty ordinance.
14 When, therefore, servants, and princes towards servants, are thus disposed, they can trust each other, but when it is otherwise, the end will always be disastrous for either one or the other.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XXII — CONCERNING THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
15 Hunger would interfere with me disastrously.
Example Sentence:
1 The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
2 A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars.
3 This decision will have a disastrous impact on foreign policy.
4 Her investment had disastrous consequences: she lost everything she owned.
5 Labor unions continue to wage these dismal quarrels against management with almost uniformly disastrous results for the workers and their communities.
6 His original idea was good, but his execution of the scheme was disastrous.
7 If you tell a person to "step on it" or "throw on your coat," they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
8 But even China's top hydro-electric engineer has expressed his doubts about some of his work, accusing one dam of causing disastrous floods and admitting that ordinary people had benefited little from the Three Gorges Dam.
9 The Haddan School was built in 1858 on the sloping banks of the Haddan River, a muddy location that had proven disastrous from the start.
10 The Sochi Olympics have been tainted by myriad controversies during the buildup – from gay rights to corruption – and many expected the Games themselves to be similarly disastrous, with concerns about the intrusiveness of security, the absence of fans and shoddy construction work.