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How to use Catastrophic in a sentence

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Catastrophic breaching of the hypothetical land bridge allowed salt water from the Mediterranean to pour into the Black Sea.
Catastrophic things can happen from accidents during transportation and handling.
Catastrophic failure of the containing ice or glacial sediment can release this water over periods of minutes to days.
Catastrophic processes can see the sudden deposition of a large amount of sediment at once.
Catastrophic failures in grinders and shredders can cost enormous amounts of time and money to repair, not to mention the opportunity costs of the down time.
What had been shining bright and brand spanking new was now a total catastrophic loss.
Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown.
Early and accurate diagnosis of cornual ectopic pregnancy is critical, since rupture can cause sudden catastrophic bleeding.
We are now so dependent on the financial system, without parallel systems of support, that the result could be catastrophic for humanity.
It may be these catastrophic ruptures in unscarred uteri that cause the misguided fear of cesarean scars rupturing.
We have previously reported that half of the cases were associated with unpreventable catastrophic events or antenatal hypoxia.
The energetic particles floating in the space around Earth also can damage spacecraft without causing immediate catastrophic failures.
Does the development team have the power and flexibility to instigate catastrophic events in the game?
Not that anything catastrophic happened, mind you, but I felt extremely underqualified to handle some of the things these kids were doing.
Although uncommon, large blowdowns generated from inland hurricanes provide an opportunity to study the effects of catastrophic windfall.
Fire suppression builds up an unnatural accumulation of fuel that creates conflagrations far more implacable and catastrophic than nature's fire.
If they misdiagnose an illness it can have a catastrophic effect on our lives.
To lose this development would be nothing short of catastrophic for the economic life of the town.
Here again, the emblem suggests a chain of catastrophic, unspeakable events triggered by irresistible emotions.
Our better performances go unrewarded and our poor showings become catastrophic.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To Louise, the loss of her holy place, but yet more the manner of its loss, was catastrophic.
Hers was the most complete loneliness, charged with a catastrophic tension.
The result was just as instantaneous and just as catastrophic as Garlock had expected.
This is the uniformitarian view, and is undoubtedly far truer than the catastrophic.
There was a sudden catastrophic whooshing roar and, wham, a tree took flame for roots.
Energizing a circuit before work is completed results in catastrophic consequences.
Almost all social prediction is catastrophic and absurdly simplified.
Another course pursued by hull and marine insurers entails prosecution of a shipper when a catastrophic loss can be traced to its cargo.
Today, one cannot reflect on these tragedies without also recalling the catastrophic plane crash in Smolensk.
I propose catastrophic health insurance for everybody covered by Medicare.
Independence will be a chimera, a catastrophic cherubic cacophony, a crepitating clattering confusion feeding the lenders' rapacious greed.
There was nothing stable in the anarchic flux of affairs that swept her on she knew not to what catastrophic end.
Mr Verloc had never expected to have to face it on account of death, whose catastrophic character cannot be argued away by sophisticated reasoning or persuasive eloquence.
He knew the prod of impulse to join in this rush away from some unthinkably catastrophic event that impended and that stirred his intuitive apprehensions of death.
Hackard is the principal attorney of Hackard Law, a Sacramento-area law firm suing wrongdoers in wrongful death, catastrophic injury and financial elder abuse litigation.
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