Example sentences for: catastrophe

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

  • Novak responded with a conservative buzzword ("big government"), and tried to use real catastrophe to further his own agenda.

  • If, however, Clinton forces difficult changes now, we can avoid catastrophe later.

  • Intriguingly, researchers designing new antiviral drugs have also begun to realise that forcing viruses into this sort of ‘error catastrophe’ might be an effective way to treat them (Figure 2).

  • In 1923, assailed by economic problems and with catastrophe imminent, the king accepted a general, Miguel Primo de Rivera, as dictator.

  • According to the Washington Post , the party's chairman-elect, Jack Gargan, is stockpiling weapons at his home in a remote part of the Florida Keys in anticipation of the global depression he thinks will result from a Y2K catastrophe.


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