catastrophe

Example Sentences

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Jessie Homer French has been painting folk-inflected scenes of environmental catastrophe for decades, but her consistent message and style remain bracingly fresh in the presentation by Various Small Fires.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a letter to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds, he warned of "ecological catastrophe" if such waterways were not protected.

From BBC

In this regard, Mr. Rachel’s book exemplifies what the French controversialist Renaud Camus calls the second career of Adolf Hitler: the long hangover of inexplicable catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal

The emergence of the unfolding catastrophe that is Aston Martin-Honda is so recent he has not yet been asked about his thoughts on his future.

From BBC

It is, he says, "a social catastrophe, an economic catastrophe and a political catastrophe".

From BBC