catastrophe

Example Sentences

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Seen from the distance of eight decades, it feels like a dispatch from a country that had just survived a catastrophe and still believed its best days lay ahead.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

This will always be one of those essential movies about a particular national dream — not just a myth — of emerging from economic catastrophe and being reborn in the promised land of California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

At a June 9 special meeting convened by Garden Grove’s government, residents emotionally recounted trauma from the recent mass evacuation and questioned a GKN Aerospace executive over the narrowly averted catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

US President Donald Trump, who signed the deal in France during the G7 summit, defended the proposal, saying it would it would stave off an "economic catastrophe".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

Less than two years after the Unzen catastrophe another group of volcano watchers, led by Stanley Williams of the University of Arizona, descended into the rim of an active volcano called Galeras in Colombia.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson