How to Use cataclysm in a Sentence

cataclysm

noun

• The country barely survived the cataclysm of war.
• The revolution could result in worldwide cataclysm.
• The threat of such a cataclysm is what right-wingers have leveraged in the past.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Sep. 2017
• What has a snail to hope for, faced with so many potential cataclysms?
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• In the real world, though, the cataclysm can come in on little cat feet.
  — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
• Up in the sky, like a crater from some distant cataclysm, was a hollow ring.
  — Annie Dillard, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2015
• Murphy plays this cataclysm with an all-too-genuine rue and fear.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• Just a few things going a bit wrong could compound, all at once, into a cataclysm.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
• Every star reaches an end point in its life and goes out in a violent cataclysm.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• Kolbert’s book warned of cataclysm; Hawken’s tries to prevent it.
  — National Geographic, 28 May 2017
• These cataclysms then scatter it through the cosmos, so the shiny stuff then turns up in the dusty discs from which planets form.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
• Was that cataclysm somehow necessary for the chain of events that led to life, to you and me, to pizza?
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 July 2019
• Substantive changes in the past have required a cataclysm, which the world cannot afford.
  — Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2016
• The first is the P/E based on what the big-caps were earning before the cataclysm.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2021
• Once launched off the rails of conformity, Jane is a walking cataclysm.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Still, that cataclysm isn’t energetic enough to shatter the white dwarf to smithereens.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2024
• And every hurricane season brings with it the chance of cataclysm.
  — Curt Anderson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• And every hurricane season brings with it the chance of cataclysm.
  — Curt Anderson, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The latest numbers show the cataclysm is spreading to all parts of the economy.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2020
• But the bottom line is that climate science, and the cataclysm of climate change, has lurched into the present tense.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
• But despite the warnings of cataclysm from the opposition, the deficit has not soared.
  — Marc Santora and Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• That's a faster fall than stocks saw in the financial crisis or even the cataclysm of 1929.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• The cataclysm of the past 15 months or more calls everything into question.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• But part of the charm of this book is Paustovsky’s inveterate lyricism in the face of cataclysm.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• The two go missing for three days, a cataclysm that causes ripples of fear and discord in their small Georgia town.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• The ban on live music has been a cataclysm for the wedding performers such as those who taught at the Ghos al Din.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• But Levy lingers too long on Facebook’s early years before getting to the cataclysms.
  — Christina Passariello, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• Sitting on the rim of his consciousness was always cataclysm, the muted whisper of a ruined world.
  — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
• Season three finale of the story of a town in New York state three years after a global cataclysm.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
• The goal is to understand how ferns were able to bounce back from the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs and the majority of living species at the time.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023