Example sentences for: cataclysmic

How can you use “cataclysmic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This desolate national park was formed largely over the course of 16 cataclysmic months during 1730 and 1731.

  • Following the resignation of Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto after a drubbing in elections for the Upper House, Japan's best-selling newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, said in an editorial Monday that "the change is cataclysmic" and called on the next prime minister to dissolve the Lower House to permit a general election.

  • With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton already in Istanbul, and Bill Clinton due there from Ankara later this week for a summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Guardian of London fronted Monday the claim that the disastrous earthquakes in northwestern Turkey were "a prelude to a cataclysmic strike in Istanbul."

  • Later it was flooded, then lifted again in further cataclysmic events.

  • Disco prefigured the most cataclysmic reordering of rock sound and attitude in 20 years: hip-hop, a form in which the technical "gimmickry" that Miller seems to both enjoy and distrust became central to music-making.


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