7 sentences with 'catastrophe'
Example sentences and phrases with the word catastrophe and other words derived from it.
• « The destruction of Atlantis is said to have taken place around 9500 BC as a result of a maritime catastrophe that swallowed it, its inhabitants and its secrets. »
• « Historians refer to the demographic catastrophe that accompanied the European encounter with the Americas as the Great Dying. Up to 90% of the natives of the Americas died within a few generations of Columbus' arrival. »
• « The Spanish and Portuguese invasions of the Americas were nothing less than a catastrophe for the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. »
• « Investigators discovered that what was on the verge of catastrophe had been due to human error. »
• « And if it does continue to fly, how long will it continue to fly, and won't the next screw we lose, perhaps as early as tomorrow, be the cause of an unprecedented catastrophe? »
• « To get a rough idea: Chernobyl will still be killing people in 2026, forty years after the catastrophe of 26 April 1986. »
• « As there were no human remains, it is assumed that the inhabitants fled when the catastrophe loomed. »