How to Use disastrous in a Sentence

disastrous

adjective

• Half the city was destroyed by a disastrous fire.
• The bad weather could have a disastrous effect on the area's tourism industry.
• His failure to back up the computer files had disastrous consequences.
• The strike was economically disastrous.
• But a disastrous start to the year by the Aggies snuffed out all of that progress in the span of four weeks.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2021
• And trust me, the ends get disastrous enough to merit the use of crossbows.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2021
• The pin was placed on top of a hill and with the greens playing fast, missed putts could be disastrous.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2021
• In the wake of a hot, dry summer, the absence of rain could prove disastrous.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
• Shishimarin’s unit, the day proved disastrous from the very start.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 22 May 2022
• The disastrous play gave the North team an early 2-0 lead and possession of the ball.
  — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2023
• What lessons can be learned from the disastrous launch of The Messenger and what has played out there?
  — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• Some of those first dates will be disastrous, as Tatis knows.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• The bullpen, which had disastrous results in the first half of the season, stabilized in the last six weeks of the year.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2021
• Both Sweeney and Neely have owned up to that disastrous draft, and to be fair, Sweeney had only been on the job for weeks.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• Just a 25-yard field goal to erase the disastrous results that came before it.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• But here’s the thing: Even after a truly disastrous first three days, Andy is still in the game!
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
• Trading away Jokic would be disastrous, and the thought of it is just as bad.
  — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
• It’s been four years since the disastrous U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 19 June 2025
• But the American era, and the Gold Rush, proved to be disastrous for Richardson.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
• What might seem like a tempting choice now will only turn out to be disastrous in the long run.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2022
• What might seem like a tempting choice now will only turn out to be disastrous in the long run.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• And that’s disastrous for the seniors who will rely on them.
  — Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2021
• The real failure was the disastrous deal Trump made with the Taliban, who didn’t keep their end of the agreement.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• His four years in Brooklyn have been disastrous at best, with this latest episode of the soap opera making the rest of the league laugh.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
• That came just a few months after the disastrous collapse in Afghanistan.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024
• The impact from the record-breaking cold was disastrous.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2022
• That was Hoke’s first lap holding the reins after the disastrous three-season run of Chuck Long.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• That’s why not having him for half their games would be disastrous.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2021
• The best response to the disastrous news is to call up Painter, a blue-chip prospect whom team officials have envisioned as Wheeler’s heir apparent.
  — Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• That move has proved disastrous in terms of casualties, domestic economic distress, the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Russians opposed to the war, and isolation from the global capitalist economy.
  — Ronald Suny, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2025