Sentence examples for a emergency from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a emergency" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an emergency" because "emergency" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "In case of an emergency, please call 911 immediately."
Alternatives: "a crisis" or "a critical situation."

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Mr. Ellis vainly searched for a emergency generator.

He wants a "emergency" windfall tax on power companies if it is cold winter.

(Mr. Mason admits to a emergency contingency plan arranged with the local Cheers Thai Restaurant).

"But barring such a emergency, we do not intend to deploy assets until they are ready".

Catalonia is so heavily in debt that it recently asked for a emergency loan of €5 billion, or $6.47 billion, from Madrid.

Liberatore, as well as travelling companion and Bulldogs team-mate Luke Dahlhaus, was named as a emergency in the Vietnam team's AFL Asia Championships campaign.

"Their hearts and respiration had already stopped when they arrived here," said a emergency room doctor whose hospital received four of the victims.

He then returned home to Illinois, where he got a job as a emergency medical technician with the Adams County Ambulance Service.

Rockland County Health Department has declared a emergency over a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall.

To assess the feasibility of oral treatment protocol with available oral antibiotics in Belgium in children admitted in a emergency unit in a single center for a febrile urinary tract infection.

"It's a terrible situation for people and it couldn't have happened at a worse time of year and we have got every sympathy for those who are suffering," she told the BBC after chairing a emergency Cobra meeting.

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