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?
  • Now, paths are being cleared in the wreckage to get ships past the disaster area.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Trump has claimed this process has not worked well and hurt people in disaster areas.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • This isn’t the first time the group has stepped in for animals in disaster areas.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Right, aerial view of El Rodeo, one of the villages in the disaster area.
    — Times Staff, latimes.com, 6 June 2018
  • Colorado’s bullpen, a disaster area of late, put the Cubs away with relative ease.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 10 June 2026
  • It’s made the kitchen a disaster area and the nearby bathroom unusable.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • The same relief will be available to any other counties added later to the disaster area.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Bangkok, home to more than 11 million people, has been declared a disaster area.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The tax expansion will expand if other counties are added to the disaster area.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But this was Harris' first visit to a disaster area as vice president.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But this was Harris’ first visit to a disaster area as vice president.
    — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • There is not yet a plan to allow residents to return to the disaster area in Lahaina.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Trump also announced plans to visit the disaster area on Friday.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The Florida maps with disaster areas marked are set forth below.
    — Alan Gassman, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Law enforcement agencies may restrict access to disaster areas for the first few days after a flood or fire.
    — Lyndsey Gilpin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Wong is a Hilo native who lived only 20 minutes from the disaster area.
    — Christopher Dawson, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • The document says the money is reserved for such things such as helping people in disaster areas.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Other areas added later to the disaster area will also qualify for the same relief.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Despite a small improvement in 2021, the balance sheet still looks like a disaster area to me.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Dec. 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
  • Abbott declared Uvalde a disaster area, which will allow quicker access to the funding.
    — Dallas News, 6 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Holness declared the entire island nation a disaster area.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One day, this robot could be launched from lunar landers to map steep crater walls on the moon or deployed from drones to survey post-disaster areas on Earth.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025

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