Example sentences for: catastrophic

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

  • Yet the calamity at the World Trade Center that same morning included catastrophic damage 1,000 feet above the ground that instantly imperiled tens of thousands of people.

  • 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).

  • The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific.

  • The most cherished treasure in the Santa Croce Museum is Cimabue’s 13th-century massive Crucifixion, rescued and painstakingly restored after the town’s catastrophic 1966 flood.

  • This great civilization came to a sudden, catastrophic end around 1450 b.c.


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