How to Use cataclysm in a Sentence

cataclysm

noun

• The country barely survived the cataclysm of war.
• The revolution could result in worldwide cataclysm.
• That dates the cataclysm which caused the burial to 822.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2017
• The threat of such a cataclysm is what right-wingers have leveraged in the past.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Sep. 2017
• The first is the P/E based on what the big-caps were earning before the cataclysm.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2021
• Up in the sky, like a crater from some distant cataclysm, was a hollow ring.
  — Annie Dillard, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2015
• That's a faster fall than stocks saw in the financial crisis or even the cataclysm of 1929.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• Was that cataclysm somehow necessary for the chain of events that led to life, to you and me, to pizza?
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 July 2019
• These cataclysms then scatter it through the cosmos, so the shiny stuff then turns up in the dusty discs from which planets form.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
• Nineteen sixty-eight was a year of cataclysms in the United States and the Western world.
  — Herbert W. Strupp, National Review, 5 Oct. 2019
• At the end of the Bronze Age there was a great cataclysm in terms of the breakdown of the social and political order.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
• The ban on live music has been a cataclysm for the wedding performers such as those who taught at the Ghos al Din.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the bottom line is that climate science, and the cataclysm of climate change, has lurched into the present tense.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
• The latest numbers show the cataclysm is spreading to all parts of the economy.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2020
• Substantive changes in the past have required a cataclysm, which the world cannot afford.
  — Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2016
• But part of the charm of this book is Paustovsky’s inveterate lyricism in the face of cataclysm.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• The goal is to understand how ferns were able to bounce back from the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs and the majority of living species at the time.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Once launched off the rails of conformity, Jane is a walking cataclysm.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Murphy plays this cataclysm with an all-too-genuine rue and fear.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• Help didn’t come in 2008, but then came the pandemic — truly a once-in-a-lifetime cataclysm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• But despite the warnings of cataclysm from the opposition, the deficit has not soared.
  — Marc Santora and Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• Kolbert’s book warned of cataclysm; Hawken’s tries to prevent it.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2017
• The age of mass protest ushered in by the Arab Spring is hardly over, but the record of failures, setbacks, and cataclysms has been dispiriting.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• Even when a cataclysm occurs, and the life of one of Amy’s family members is at stake, the movie keeps us supremely aware of the logistics of the phone.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2021
• The year was 1917, and a proud American tradition was born out of cataclysm.
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2019
• The cataclysm of 9/11 changes everything for Dana and Charles, but the film doesn’t just culminate in what happens to him in combat.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Dec. 2021
• Season three finale of the story of a town in New York state three years after a global cataclysm.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• The cataclysm of the past 15 months or more calls everything into question.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• Imagine if a ghost from the future could have given world leaders in 1914 a glimpse of the cataclysm their policies would produce.
  — Philip Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2017
• Our telescopes are now so sensitive that every year astronomers see tens of thousands of these stellar cataclysms somewhere in the universe.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024