cataclysm

Example Sentences

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“It has preserved the historical memory of our spiritual culture from all that time. There have been cataclysms and destruction, yet it has been restored.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Dyer’s father was traumatized by the austerity of growing up in England between two military cataclysms, and his daily satisfaction is bound in his ability to pinch pences.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Then I spent five years writing a book about catastrophes and cataclysms over the course of human history, from the climate change–fueled collapse of Old Kingdom Egypt to the Black Death.

From Slate • May 14, 2025

"We might be seeing a completely different channel for cosmic cataclysms," she said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023

Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown