How to Use chain reaction in a Sentence

chain reaction

noun

• Increased oil prices could trigger a chain reaction in the economy.
• 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
• The chain reaction caused Brendan Gaughan’s car to flip over the car of Kurt Busch and land on its wheels.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
• The struggle to raise cash has threatened to set off a chain reaction.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Their surgeries were performed a day apart in March and that set off a chain reaction.
  — Mola Lenghi, CBS News, 2 July 2019
• The world’s struggles are ‘piling up like cars in a chain reaction crash,’ U.N. chief says.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• Cool water drawn up from the ocean depths due to the wind shift triggers a chain reaction of weather events.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
• 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
• This can cause a chain reaction slowing of traffic in the lane involved.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Every chain reaction starts small and needs the help of at least one catalyst.
  — Omid Malekan, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• 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
• The danger for Mr Putin now is that the protests will trigger a chain reaction throughout Russia.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Yet that’s enough time to cause a debilitating chain reaction.
  — Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024