Sentence examples for Meet with disaster from inspiring English sources

If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.

The family and the animals from the zoo embark on their journey to Canada but meet with disaster on the ocean.

Three astronauts go forth on a daring quest, meet with disaster, face death and barely limp back to the safety of home.

"Do not put all your goods aboard ship for trading," wrote the poet Hesiod in the 7th century BC, "for it is a bad thing to meet with disaster at sea.

The first specialty trip, in 2004, almost met with disaster.

Reports that the expedition had met with disaster soon reached the settlements on the Gambia.

met with disaster, my publishing house would automatically publish it in France. . . .

The first U.S. ground troops deployed to the Korean Peninsula met with disaster.

Her first installation, Cultural Landscapes: Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne, though, met with disaster – natural disaster, that is.

Henry and Fernando nevertheless attacked Tangier and met with disaster; Henry had shown poor generalship and mismanaged the enterprise.

However, it met with disaster when he courted the glitzy but unsound DeLorean Motors to build its experimental gull-winged car in West Belfast.