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Example sentences for: catastrophe

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

"If Clinton wants to avoid a nuclear catastrophe for the world and the dustbin of history for himself, he has no other choice," the paper said.
In 1923, assailed by economic problems and with catastrophe imminent, the king accepted a general, Miguel Primo de Rivera, as dictator.
"We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."
The consensus among the papers is that the Japanese mishap is nowhere near as environmentally threatening as either the meltdown at Three Mile Island or the far worse Chernobyl catastrophe.
"Catastrophe," Jay said.