- a variation of cataclysmic.
cataclysmal
Example Sentences
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Miss Quincey was quite shaken by this cataclysmal outbreak, this overturning and shattering of the old beacons and landmarks.
From Superseded by May Sinclair
Then, if they went into a flat that was nearly all studio, their furniture went back in a cataclysmal wave to the warehouse, where a ten-dollar room, a twelve-dollar room, would not dam the overflow.
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by William Dean Howells
The whole structure of three united, happy lives was built upon these cataclysmal facts--yet she had never asked what thought they held of them!
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer
Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.'
From The Beetle by Richard Marsh
