How to Use catastrophe in a Sentence

catastrophe

noun

• The oil spill was an environmental catastrophe.
• Experts fear a humanitarian catastrophe if food isn't delivered to the refugees soon.
• The catastrophe on one side of the world has run its course.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
• That then takes you up to 1914 and the catastrophe that starts there.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2022
• And by the way, that's supposed to lead us now to catastrophe.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• The blackout and the chaos that has ensued is a metaphor for the catastrophe known as Venezuela.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2019
• And if so, what needs to be done to guard against more catastrophe?
  — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2018
• But the lead-up to that launch was a complete catastrophe.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 June 2019
• None of us should have to wait or meet near catastrophe to be healthy.
  — Andy Dunn As Told To Marty Munson, Men's Health, 10 May 2022
• To Arabs, that event is known as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
  — Nada Bashir, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• This is real -- a mystery and a catastrophe at the same time.
  — Fox News, 25 Mar. 2018
• But in the last five years, the number of such catastrophes has more than doubled to 18.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
• No matter what brought it on, a flare-up doesn’t have to be a catastrophe.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 5 Nov. 2019
• Ohio State can’t win at Notre Dame as a third-down catastrophe.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• The near catastrophe turned out to have a happy ending for all.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2021
• Marguerite Duras The purpose of language for Duras is to nail a catastrophe to the page.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
• But the southwest will be the next theater for catastrophe.
  — Dylan Baddour, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2017
• But Putin still believes in his heart that that was a catastrophe.
  — CBS News, 30 Mar. 2022
• What is Utah doing to prevent or stymie the size of that catastrophe?
  — Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• Turner’s song is more about his own actions in the face of such a catastrophe.
  — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2018
• The heroic attempt to thwart such a heist ends in catastrophe.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 June 2019
• So why not go ahead and suspend or raise the limit on their own to avoid that sort of catastrophe?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• The same goes for all the creatures here, victims of catastrophe half a billion years ago.
  — Neil Ever Osborne, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Burning is not the only cause of death in this catastrophe.
  — Abby Jones, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
• What the Democrats are trying right now would be nothing short of a catastrophe.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 23 Sep. 2021
• Waiting any longer would move the U.S. closer to the brink of a global health catastrophe.
  — Carlos Del Rio, STAT, 21 Nov. 2022
• So Steve was talking to us about all the catastrophes that had happened.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
• Everyone wants to talk about bat flips and pace of play, but this is a catastrophe.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• While authorities have not identified the cause of that catastrophe, CNN has confirmed one air traffic controller was staffing two different jobs in the tower – handling both local air traffic and helicopter traffic in the area.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
• Similarly, in 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil spill resulted in a massive environmental catastrophe.
  — Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025