How to Use crisis in a Sentence

crisis

noun
  • She was dealing with a family crisis at the time.
  • A year ago, both companies were in crisis.
  • In times of national crisis, we need strong leaders we can trust.
  • Most people blame the government for the country's worsening economic crisis.
  • But now, there are a lot of crises.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
  • None of which amounts to a crisis.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • That is one of our biggest crises.
    — NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
  • That is not to say crises don’t matter.
    — Ajaypal Banga, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • And the truth is that this isn’t a crisis.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • This crisis won’t be solved with a quick fix.
    — Carlos Curbelo, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
  • This crisis is not new to our region.
    — Ryan Von Weller, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The crisis shows up about two years after the cuts.
    — Kristien Turner, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • But the deeper crisis isn’t a bad month.
    — Gregory Haile, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • What's new now is the layers of crises facing the regime.
    — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • This crisis is the backdrop of the film.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
  • As the years went on and the crisis waned, some habits remained.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • But short-term fixes alone won’t solve this crisis.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • In that crisis, there were more than enough mistakes to go around.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Credit cards will end our debt crisis.
    — Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
  • In any rom-com, the couple must, at some point, be in crisis.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • Culture crises do not happen overnight.
    — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
  • From bust to boom The program was born from a crisis.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But the crisis is real and someone needs to keep this ship afloat.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • These kids grew up in the shadow of the opioid crisis.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The companies that caused this crisis should pay for it.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Here was a transit crisis that could be blamed on children.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • For Levin, the crisis is not abstract.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Scharf agrees that the emergency room is not a good place for kids in crisis.
    — ProPublica, 9 June 2022
  • In a crisis, people look to managers as those who should guide the team.
    — Leonid Kozlov, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • In crisis like these, the healing doesn't happen in four or five days.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 30 May 2022

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