Sentence examples for awful disasters from inspiring English sources

Were there awful disasters and atrocities?

I just feel frightened because I think there is some awful disaster in store for me.

Do you think that is good for the city?Bobby Jindal: …Katrina was an awful, awful disaster for New Orleans, for Louisiana, for the entire region.

"All we know now is, this is an awful disaster," Representative Nick J. Rahall II said as he arrived at the mine site, which is in his district.

There wasn't some awful disaster, There wasn't a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation...

By offering the use of their properties, second-home owners will make an enormous difference to the lives of people whose festive season has already been cut short by this awful disaster.

Figes has adopted a Tolstoyan convention of telling the stories of a few individuals of middling importance as a means of describing what 'real people' did in the course of the revolution and demonstrating how the views and actions of such people determined the awful disaster.

Uncertainties about the disease's severity and its mortality had caused wide panic and worry, but anxiety declined as awful disaster scenarios did not come true [ 1].

To start off, she dredged up William McGonagall's truly atrocious train wreck of a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, which sing-song narrates the tale of an awful rail disaster in which several dozen rail passengers fell to their death "on the last Sabbath day of 1879/which will be remembered for a very long time".

And another of him looking understandably concerned in the uproariously awful Rutger Hauer/Kim Cattrall disaster flick Split Second ("They've seen the future … now they have to kill it").

But this is not a story about how awful the disaster was—it's about how everyone coped with it.