Sentences with 'catastrophic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word catastrophic and other words derived from it.
• « Nobel called war "the worst crime", and weapons such as those he himself helped to create, "instruments of hell". Indeed, he hoped that their very destructiveness would so shock the world that it would compel it to end wars. But the two devastating world wars of this century were made even more catastrophic by Nobel's inventions. »
• « But then, you have to be British to endure the bitter cold, thick fog, almost permanent rain and catastrophic winds that the Romans endured in Britain for more than a hundred years. »
• « He used this knowledge to advocate the use of lightning rods: metal poles connected to wires that direct the lightning's electrical charge to the ground and save wooden houses in cities like Philadelphia from catastrophic fires. »