How to Use chain reaction in a Sentence

chain reaction

noun

• Increased oil prices could trigger a chain reaction in the economy.
• The struggle to raise cash has threatened to set off a chain reaction.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• None of those set off a chain reaction that pushed the U.S. economy into a contraction.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• This set off a chain reaction of diplomatic spats between Stockholm and Beijing.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 1 May 2020
• This cheesy game for kids ages 6 and up gives a lesson or two in chain reactions and construction in addition to more traditional gameplay.
  — Popular Science, 31 Mar. 2020
• But each sets off a complicated chain reaction that ripples through the organization.
  — Emmanuel Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• The experiment offered a glimpse of the complex chain reaction that occurs when an exotic plant is introduced.
  — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• Though there were attempts to shut down the reactor entirely, another power surge caused a chain reaction of explosions inside the plant.
  — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Following that simple advice might be an easy step to kick off the chain reaction of visible, and invisible, benefits.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2020
• The coronavirus test uses a chemical chain reaction to detect tiny traces of the virus' genetic material and reproduce it many times.
  — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2020
• The disease had spread to at least twenty-four countries, sparking fears of a global scourge, as well as an economic chain reaction, as China’s economic behemoth fell silent.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
• Patrick Smith / Getty Images During the homestretch, a chain reaction sent four other runners toppling.
  — Susan Baek, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• In fact, the chain reactions unleashed during the explosion produced a blast almost three times as big as predicted—1,000 times bigger than the Hiroshima bomb.
  — Carl Zimmer, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
• The events of No Way Home will then set off a chain reaction.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 July 2021
• The song started a chain reaction of dance both on stage and in the audience.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2022
• He got caught in a chain reaction crash in Turn 12 barely a quarter of the way through the race and finished 35th.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
• This sets off the chain reaction that ends with the Taylor-Prince-Chuck alliance.
  — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
• The chain reaction pushed prices higher at every link along the way.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Even a change of a few degrees would have been enough to trigger a chain reaction that caused the food chain to collapse.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 30 Mar. 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
• In the blink of an eye, the float was pulled under water, triggering a chain reaction on the club's grounds.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2021
• 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
• In the end, Favors’ man has to help, leaving for a chain reaction of passes that ends up as a Clarkson three.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2021
• 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
• Nath suspects the wide mix of autoantibodies seen in patients points to some earlier chain reaction in the immune system, perhaps from fragments of lingering virus.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024