Sentence examples for disastrous experience from inspiring English sources

Even in ordinary circumstances, having a roommate can be an awkward, stressful, and sometimes disastrous experience, but dorm living can feel like a sociological experiment.

Argentina had a disastrous experience in this regard.

It was, to say the least, a disastrous experience.

It is a funny account of his disastrous experience playing football with the Detroit Lions.

What did not come up was Mr. Falcone's disastrous experience with Lightsquared.

The Observer's Jay Rayner had a similarly disastrous experience making pork scratchings in the oven before a dinner party.

"He and his reign accounted for one of the most disastrous experiences of public health anywhere in the world," Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist and playwright, said in an interview.

Most of the tales of disastrous experiences are from the start of the authors' careers, as with Julian Barnes's anecdote about a literary party that couldn't have gone worse for him, or Margaret Atwood's account of an early signing session in the men's underwear section of a department store and a TV appearance in which she followed a woman from the Colostomy Association.

The majority of Latin American countries had disastrous experiences with military coups not ones in which the armed forces acted at the behest of the Supreme Court, as just occurred in Honduras, but ones in which the armed forces threw out the civilians entirely, ran the country for years or decades, and killed and tortured a lot of people in the process.

Partly because of this and other disastrous experiences of renting in London, they've now moved to Berlin.

The hurricane produced heavy damage near where it moved ashore, having been described as the most disastrous experienced there to date.