cataclysmal

Example Sentences

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Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

This cataclysmal desire drew me by day and by night.

From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath

Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.

From Secret Places of the Heart by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.'

From The Beetle by Marsh, Richard