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Example sentences for "cataclysmic"

Lexicographically close words:
casuists; casus; cat; cata; cataclysm; cataclysms; catacomb; catacombs; catafalque; catalectic
  1. The cataclysmic force of that explosion should be enough to wreck a small planet.

  2. The cataclysmic power of that little bomb should be more than a match for even this monster.

  3. The result of that work lay before him on the bench--a tiny lead capsule containing a pinhead lump of a substance which Dixon believed would utterly dwarf earth's most powerful explosives in its cataclysmic power.

  4. At some epoch in the past, probably at least one thousand million years ago, our own sun may have undergone some cataclysmic change and this may, conceivably, have been brought about by disturbances within the sun itself.

  5. It would have to be a cataclysmic change indeed to be accepted as indisputable evidence that change is taking place on the moon, and the days of gigantic upheavals are probably over on our satellite as well as on the earth.

  6. This cataclysmic process was accelerated by the outbreak of a fierce conflict in the heart of Europe, fanning into flame age-long animosities and unchaining a series of calamities as swift as they were appalling.

  7. Of that epoch known by the Nemedian chroniclers as the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, little is known except the latter part, and that is veiled in the mists of legendry.

  8. He told her about how these men's search for wealth and power plunged the whole world into a bloody conflict that escalated into a cataclysmic holocaust, that almost wiped-out every living creature from the face of the Earth.

  9. She had known that something cataclysmic happened but no one could ever find out the whole story because it was a taboo topic, according to the written Laws of Canon; which denied any kind of knowledge about the past.

  10. What were to be the first-fruits of that cataclysmic revulsion of feeling in a nature so habitually frozen from all tenderness?

  11. He concluded that a great and cataclysmic change should never be sudden or precipitate.

  12. They only know that a cataclysmic change has been effected, and that it is their business to help us back to our first and natural condition.

  13. But even Mr. Gladstone must not be too hard on sudden and cataclysmic changes.

  14. Space will not allow me to dwell on more than a few of the things which caught his eye, and assured him that the change in Erewhonian habits and opinions had been even more cataclysmic than he had already divined.

  15. Erewhon" would give rise to such a cataclysmic change in the old Erewhonian opinions as would result in the development of a new religion.

  16. As though in protest at this invasion of its sanctity, the wilderness broke out in cataclysmic revolt.

  17. The period has been long and the manner of its end is memorable forever—a sudden, flaming, world-wide cataclysmic demonstration of fundamental ignorance—human ignorance of human nature.

  18. Instead, they jumped violently at the terrific report which seemed to rend the hills; the deafening, cataclysmic peal whose source, be it inner earth or sky, no hearer was ever able to place.

  19. The trail up and down Sentinel Hill seemed to Armitage of almost cataclysmic significance, and he looked long at the sinister altarlike stone on the summit.

  20. This cataclysmic element of force, as opposed to the gradual uniformity theory of Lyell, finds expounders in Huxley and Prestwich, and is the burden of H.

  21. Jeter was usually the leader where Eyer and himself were concerned and he thought already that he foresaw cataclysmic events.

  22. Or shall it come through cataclysmic revolution?

  23. I say "seem," because there are unquestionably mysterious emotional depths in the Asiatic soul which may yet justify the prophets of cataclysmic war.

  24. The British Government has officially admitted that during 1915 the Allies' Asiatic and African possessions stood within a hand's breadth of a cataclysmic insurrection.

  25. It is a cataclysmic event of the same order as the fiat lux of cosmic creation, a rebirth through which the man who has it once again comes into the condition Adam was in before he fell.

  26. High above our world it seemed to rise, a titanic, bulking, cataclysmic mass, magnificent in its immensity.

  27. So come the cataclysmic wars and reigns of terror that mark the end of racial manvantaras: it is a humanity gone collectively mad.

  28. Such cataclysmic wars as Ts'in had been waging for the conquest of China take society first, so to say, upon its circumference, smash that to atoms, and then go working inwards.

  29. I charged him with that cataclysmic outrage.

  30. Cataclysmic changes through anarchy, revolution, and war were repugnant to his ideals of culture.

  31. Cataclysmic indeed has been the collapse of the most preeminent institution of Sunní Islám, and irretrievable the downfall of its hierarchy in a country that had championed the cause of the self-styled vicar of the Prophet of God.

  32. Sarka thought somewhat grimly, the resultant cataclysmic war would at least solve the problem of over-population!

  33. The sound was incapable of being described, for outside the laboratory the sound of the advance of the Moon-cubes eating into the dwellings of men, tumbling them down, grinding them to powder, was cataclysmic in its mighty volume.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cataclysmic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baneful; black; calamitous; cataclysmic; catastrophic; consuming; consumptive; deadly; desolating; destructive; devastating; dire; disastrous; fatal; fateful; grievous; insurrectionary; internecine; jerky; nihilistic; radical; revolutionary; revulsive; ruinous; spasmodic; spastic; subversive; suicidal; sweeping; tragic; unlucky; violent; wasteful; wasting; withering