How to Use chain reaction in a Sentence

chain reaction

noun

• Increased oil prices could trigger a chain reaction in the economy.
• The song started a chain reaction of dance both on stage and in the audience.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022
• The chain reaction pushed prices higher at every link along the way.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• The world’s struggles are ‘piling up like cars in a chain reaction crash,’ U.N. chief says.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• The bank’s failure set off a chain reaction that has coursed through the global banking system in the weeks since.
  — Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• Challenge someone this year with a gift that gives a chain reaction for good.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
• In the Little Boy, a bullet-like projectile made of uranium-235 was fired at a core of the same substance to set off the chain reaction.
  — Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• Russell was struck by the first vehicle in the chain reaction.
  — Camila Pedrosa, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• Those warmer waters can set off a chain reaction of climate effects around the world.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 13 Apr. 2023
• The flooding creates a chain reaction in the engine and the batteries that made the parts more likely to catch on fire, the agency said.
  — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Three vehicles were unable to stop and were struck in a chain reaction.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 5 Feb. 2022
• But it’s gone too far with its easy kills and chain reaction explosions.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The arms push the coins on one end of the table, causing a chain reaction of the coins, and whatever coins drop off the other side is what the player gets to take home.
  — Paul Walker, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• That can create a word-of-mouth snowball chain reaction.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• One driver captured a clip of the chain reaction of the crash, showing tractor-trailers and cars skidding off the road.
  — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• State police said an initial crash caused a chain reaction of crashes in the northbound lanes after a sedan spun out in the rain.
  — Tim Richardson, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• At the time, people didn't think a chain reaction was possible.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• Something could set off a chain reaction for you today.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Slacking on these tasks while Mercury is in reverse could set off a chain reaction of chaos in the first half of September.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Sep. 2023
• The killings began a chain reaction of charges against Alex Murdaugh, who now faces more than 90 criminal charges.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2022
• The sky behind it shimmers as if that gesture, gentle as the flap of a butterfly wing, has set off a chain reaction.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• The success of the James Bond books and films had set off a chain reaction, with secret agents proliferating on both large and small screens.
  — CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• That type of malfunction typically affects the brakes on all of the cars, like a chain reaction.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Fed can stop that chain reaction by lifting interest rates to slow demand.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• There was a very real chain reaction to that horror right here in Washington.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• But Clowney’s hope has always been that Watson’s return would provide a chain reaction, one that can help the defense play more freely and take more risks.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
• In the bowels of a car carrier, a chain reaction from such a fire could be devastating.
  — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
• But in a chain reaction, nine states, all led by Republican secretaries of state, dropped out of the program.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• The most likely cause in a chain reaction was a filter blockage where liquid oxygen is supplied to the engines.
  — Aashna Shah, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier and the worst case scenario chain reaction is not guaranteed, however.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024