How to Use disaster area in a Sentence

disaster area

noun
  • After the hurricane, the state was declared a disaster area.
  • His office is a disaster area. How can he find anything in all this clutter?
  • The organization is also looking for foster families, donations and volunteers to pitch in for workers sent to disaster areas.
    Mike Deehan, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Right, aerial view of El Rodeo, one of the villages in the disaster area.
    Times Staff, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
  • Now, paths are being cleared in the wreckage to get ships past the disaster area.
    Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time the group has stepped in for animals in disaster areas.
    Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In speech after speech, the United States is cast as a disaster area, ...
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 26 July 2023
  • Despite a small improvement in 2021, the balance sheet still looks like a disaster area to me.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • It’s made the kitchen a disaster area and the nearby bathroom unusable.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Residents have not been allowed to enter the disaster area since the fires Aug. 8.
    Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • There is not yet a plan to allow residents to return to the disaster area in Lahaina.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • For Trump, the trip Thursday is yet another visit to a disaster area.
    Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Across the disaster area, people could only wait for the waters to recede before getting a full view of the damage.
    CBS News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The tax expansion will expand if other counties are added to the disaster area.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Yahya Üstün, an airline spokesman, said on Twitter Tuesday that citizens can take a free one-way flight out of nine cities in the disaster area.
    Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Mayor Bud Lewis of Carlsbad said last night that the city would be asking the state to declare the city a disaster area, so people who had lost their homes could get low-cost loans.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Wong is a Hilo native who lived only 20 minutes from the disaster area.
    Christopher Dawson, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • The impulse to limit foreign access to a disaster area can be born of an effort to avoid criticism.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Maui County did not respond to questions about the process or timeline for permission to enter the disaster area.
    Karin Brulliard and Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Trump also announced plans to visit the disaster area on Friday.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • This latest look comes on the heels—no pun intended—of the criticism Trump faced for wearing a black version of the same shoe to board Air Force One for her first visit to the disaster area.
    Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The money in the fund can only be used if the federal government declares Dallas a disaster area, the statement said.
    Juan Jaramillo, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2020
  • In the case of Covid, the SBA determined the entire country was a disaster area, allowing every business to apply for these loans.
    Allbusiness, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Among those powers is the authority to say who goes into or out of a disaster area and to restrict movement within an area.
    Fox News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • President Jimmy Morales declared three days of mourning and toured shelters and the disaster area.
    Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 4 June 2018
  • Over time, teams mark routes in and out of the disaster area, building shoring with boards and other material to prevent debris from falling.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • As tourism comes back toward the disaster area, the conversation around tourism is unlikely to settle down.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The story of the Erdem family is one of many emotional tales of human fortitude to emerge from the widespread disaster area.
    Robert Badendieck, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Mae Ramphueng Beach in Rayong province was declared a disaster area after some oil came ashore there late on Friday.
    CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
  • However, some taxpayers in disaster areas receive both an automatic extension to file and more time to pay.
    Kate Dore, Cfp®, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024

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