cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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But geologists are becoming more and more loath to call in the cataclysmal to explain any feature of the topography of the land.

From Time and Change by Burroughs, John

Nothing short of the cataclysmal end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.

From October Vagabonds by Le Gallienne, Richard

Lyall in England had shown that geological formations were evolutionary rather than cataclysmal.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath

The whole structure of three united, happy lives was built upon these cataclysmal facts--yet she had never asked what thought they held of them!

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.