How to use in-sentence of “catastrophic”:
+ The predicted failure may be catastrophic or may be something as subtle as the inability to write to certain sectors, or perhaps slower performance than the manufacturer’s declared minimum.
+ Cuvier believed there was no evidence for the evolution of organic forms, but there was evidence for successive creations after catastrophic extinction events.
+ Krakatoa, best known for its catastrophic eruption in 1883, is much smaller now.
+ This let loose a catastrophic flood which diverted the Rhine into the English Channel and separated Britain from the continent of Europe.
+ The North won, but only after catastrophic loses on both sides.
Example sentences of “catastrophic”:
+ Malfunctions can range from minor problems that can be corrected in-flight and still be landed, to catastrophic malfunctions that require the main parachute to be cut away using a modern 3-ring release system, and the reserve be deployed.
+ In fact, few major hurricanes struck the Gulf coast during 3000 BC3000–1400 BC and again during the most recent millennium; these quiescent intervals were separated by a hyperactive period during 1400 BC and 1000 AD, when the Gulf coast was struck frequently by catastrophic hurricanes and their landfall probabilities increased by 3–5 times.
+ Unless most of these requirements are met, the catastrophic destruction of a structure may occur.
+ Camille was the second of three Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ScaleCategory 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century, which it did near the mouth of the Mississippi River on the night of August 17, resulting in catastrophic damage.
+ Category4 storms may cause catastrophic damage: Well-built framed homes can sustain severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls.
+ A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in the 1780s blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki#1783 eruptionLaki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island’s livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the population.
+ Heavy rains affected Oaxaca and Guerrero, causing catastrophic loss of life around Acapulco.
+ The storm threatened the East Coast of the United States with major and catastrophic flooding, especially in the Carolinas.
+ There, in July 48 BC, at Dyrrhachium Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat.
+ Lyell believed in gradual change, and thought even Hutton gave too much credit to catastrophic changes.
+ German diplomacy faced a catastrophic situation”.
+ In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident.
+ In a letter to the National Academies of Sciences, he outlined his concerns that extraterrestrial microbes might gain entry to Earth onboard spacecraft, causing catastrophic diseases.
+ According to Russian Movie criticismfilm critic Andrei Plakhov, he managed to go from a catastrophic post-war feeling of being to an optimistic one, and later managed to move away from the main, commercial stream of Japanese cinema towards a philosophical cinema that comprehends as “the problems of human existence, the problems of civilization, the problem of economy and the problem of death.” Suzuki joined the studio in 1955 and worked there until 1967, having directed exactly 40 films.
+ Malfunctions can range from minor problems that can be corrected in-flight and still be landed, to catastrophic malfunctions that require the main parachute to be cut away using a modern 3-ring release system, and the reserve be deployed.
+ In fact, few major hurricanes struck the Gulf coast during 3000 BC3000–1400 BC and again during the most recent millennium; these quiescent intervals were separated by a hyperactive period during 1400 BC and 1000 AD, when the Gulf coast was struck frequently by catastrophic hurricanes and their landfall probabilities increased by 3–5 times.
+ Unless most of these requirements are met, the catastrophic destruction of a structure may occur.