What is "catastrophes"

Usage examples of "catastrophes".

Murray Smith-Ng was clinging to his belief that catastrophes were predictable.

When at last he had relieved himself in the cracked and dirty stool that had time only after every other use to refill its tank and flush, he felt human once more, able to face the world and all its temptations and potential catastrophes, even the Lyles.

The audience waited, shocked into immobility, shocked out of skepticism, expecting miracles and fearing them, fearing catastrophes and expecting them.

As usual, the legend is localized in the country, and the Deluge counts among three terrible catastrophes of the island of Prydian, or Britain, the other two consisting of devastation by fire and by drought.

Hellenes were childish in attaching so much importance to that event, as there had been several other local catastrophes resembling it.

One of the most memorable of all the Alpine catastrophes was that of July, 1865, on the Matterhorn--already sighted referred to, a few pages back.

Kingman, the only set left surviving from the catastrophes that had enveloped the Aegean world, yet this man had no partner with which to dance through the sorcerous twistings of the labyrinth.

Here and there, scattered among the others, lines of letters scrolled up screens with news about impending catastrophes like the words written on the wall at Belshazzar's feast.

The impact of such catastrophes, bloodshed, and extinction is all gravy on the meat and potatoes of biology.

If man has existed on the earth as long as science asserts, be must have passed through many of the great catastrophes which are written upon the face of the planet.