Sentence examples for dodged a disaster from inspiring English sources
New York City and the communities downstream of one of the city's reservoirs in the Catskills may have dodged a disaster as the swirling remains of Hurricane Irene dumped between 9 and 13 inches of rain across the valleys feeding that part of the city's water supply.
The Nets dodged a backcourt disaster yesterday when magnetic resonance imaging scans performed on the achy knees of guards Stephon Marbury and Kerry Kittles showed no major damage that would require surgery.
My family and I dodged a household-scale disaster in the same storm.
Even if Europe ultimately dodges a euro disaster, it is still facing a grim economic forecast as the crisis weighs on confidence and markets overseas slow.
In the aftermath of the BNSF's massive freight train explosion in Casselton, Mayor Ed McConnell told the press the city with 2,329 citizens was lucky to have "dodged a bullet," with no fatalities from the disaster.
Maybe we've dodged a bullet there.
Murray dodged a bullet there.
Bush dodged a shoe; he cannot dodge shame.
