Example sentences for: catastrophic

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

  • Their voices went unheeded by the likes of Peel, Russell, and Trevelyan, and the ideology of laissez-faire political economy meshed with anti-Irish bigotry to produce catastrophic results for the Irish poor.

  • Unless some catastrophic scandal is revealed--and drug use doesn't come close to alleged rape and illegal campaign contributions, but don't get me started--Bush will be the nominee.

  • Consequently, workers compensation recoveries, except in catastrophic injury cases, are too small to make it financially feasible for the private attorney to undertake these cases.

  • A constant cycle of building, decay, collapse, and rebuilding — plus the occasional catastrophic fire — gave the Old Town its characteristic irregular layout and chimney-strewn skyline.

  • Jeff--brilliantly fulfilling the ancient journalistic dictum "Sell every piece three times"--has argued in the New Republic , the New York Times , and this week in Time magazine that Clinton's troubles are due to catastrophic defects in the sexual-harassment and special-prosecutor laws (with help from Clinton's own misbehavior, he always is careful to add).


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