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How to use catastrophic in a sentence

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This was catastrophic for some of the local animals, especially the big marsupial carnivores.
Fire suppression builds up an unnatural accumulation of fuel that creates conflagrations far more implacable and catastrophic than nature's fire.
Kelly thought back now on the events that had set them all on this catastrophic course.
Together they connive in cahoots and scheme to create the world's worst musical, a guaranteed catastrophic dog of a show.
What had been shining bright and brand spanking new was now a total catastrophic loss.
As the months groaned by there were rumours of big price increases, insatiable thirst and catastrophic suspension failure.
It defends itself by saying it pays competitive wages and provides employees low cost, catastrophic healthcare coverage.
We are now so dependent on the financial system, without parallel systems of support, that the result could be catastrophic for humanity.
Like most companies, Rambus backs up its e-mail servers as a hedge against a catastrophic system breakdown.
Variceal bleeding is the most catastrophic complication of portal hypertension associated with cirrhotic and noncirrhotic forms of liver disease.
It may be these catastrophic ruptures in unscarred uteri that cause the misguided fear of cesarean scars rupturing.
Close inspection showed a catastrophic failure of two of the main wheel hub bolts.
Once it died down, and I ceased to be hot news, I was stranded in this catastrophic place.
We have previously reported that half of the cases were associated with unpreventable catastrophic events or antenatal hypoxia.
Not that anything catastrophic happened, mind you, but I felt extremely underqualified to handle some of the things these kids were doing.
The survivalist groups operate on the basis of the near certainty of a catastrophic breakdown.
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.
There was a sudden catastrophic whooshing roar and, wham, a tree took flame for roots.
Hers was the most complete loneliness, charged with a catastrophic tension.
This is the uniformitarian view, and is undoubtedly far truer than the catastrophic.
The result was just as instantaneous and just as catastrophic as Garlock had expected.
Energizing a circuit before work is completed results in catastrophic consequences.
There was nothing stable in the anarchic flux of affairs that swept her on she knew not to what catastrophic end.
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.
Almost all social prediction is catastrophic and absurdly simplified.
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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