catastrophe
Example Sentences
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The sailor begins his tale of a catastrophe at sea: Hypnotized—as we are too—by the mariner’s “strange power of speech,” the wedding guest listens like a child.
Small-scale natural catastrophes in the U.S. are becoming costlier for insurers.
"If there is a major humanitarian crisis, the impact, the devastation will be unstoppable... We are talking about a catastrophe that Latin America has never seen," Mauricio Jaramillo said in an interview in Bogota.
From Barron's
Iraq descended into a bloody catastrophe after the US invasion in 2003.
From BBC
It’s a delicate harbinger of the great catastrophe to come.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
