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[ UK /kɹˈa‍ɪsɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹaɪsəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
    they went bankrupt during the economic crisis
  2. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
    after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better

How To Use crisis In A Sentence

  • In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
  • There will come a time when the crisis will occur.
  • Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
  • There is a slow drift into crisis.
  • Non-emergency surgery planned over the next few days had to be cancelled because of the blood donor crisis.
  • Spin, the tracks were mostly inspired by surfing, except for the instrumental "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is an homage to Lady Gaga, and the title track, which is about "the world economic crisis. Pitchfork: Latest News
  • The present crisis is analogous with the situation immediately before the war.
  • What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
  • The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. 
  • C.N), the largest U.S. bank and a major casualty of the crisis, could fall below $10 a share, less than a third of its 150-day moving average price of $32.82, as the credit crisis unravels further.
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