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How to use the word catastrophe in a Sentence?

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It’s simply a recipe for economic and financial catastrophe to think we can pay some of our bills and not all of them.

Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bottom line is the models that are being used by the existing [catastrophe] modeling industry are based strictly on historical statistics, the historical record isn’t very long, and it isn’t very good when you get back to before 1970.

Kerry Emanuel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That means the food’s not coming in, hence you get so much malnutrition (that) has led to this terrible catastrophe.

Fiona Watson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m very proud of the FedEx flight crew and that pilot, they saved, in my view, 128 people from a potential catastrophe.

Jennifer Homendy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's really daunting for a lot of businesses, especially the ones who came through Covid in a weakened state, they're now struggling to deal with another once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe.

Martin McTague

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pandemic has made it nearly impossible for providers to continue, and the current market conditions have made it even more difficult, without action to shore up and strengthen supply, we are headed for catastrophe, which would leave families without care options.

Michelle Kang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be a catastrophe if Putin won. He'd love nothing more than to say, 'Let's freeze this conflict, let's have a cease-fire,'.

Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This case is a nothing less than a catastrophe of our young people, these ages make you weep. As I keep saying, we are losing a generation in the Bronx District and we must act now to save our young people.

Darcel Clark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

International Association for Suicide Prevention is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her, because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn't penetrate into her heart and the lie the disease told her was so convincing.

Ashley Judd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re seeing a human rights catastrophe, we’re seeing a public health catastrophe, we’re seeing a crime and national security catastrophe, every part of America has been impacted, you’ve got migrants going to every corner of the country.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The port is mined. A humanitarian catastrophe inside the city is unequivocal, because it is impossible to go there with food, medicine and water.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

All entries and exits from the city of Mariupol are blocked, the port is mined. A humanitarian catastrophe inside the city is unequivocal, because it is impossible to go there with food, medicine and water.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I am very upset that there is not more pressure from international organizations to force humanitarian corridors and monitor them, it has to happen because I think … hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will start dying in some of these cities. The scale … will be a catastrophe.

Victoria Spartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If there is an explosion, that's the end for everyone. The end for Europe. The evacuation of Europe, only urgent action by Europe can stop the Russian troops. Do not allow the death of Europe from a catastrophe at a nuclear power station.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Do not let Europe die in the nuclear catastrophe.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But for the catastrophe in Afghanistan, there's not a doubt in my mind -- not a doubt in my mind -- that the Russians wouldn't be on the border of Ukraine with 100,000 or more troops, had we not indicated to the rest of the world we were pulling the plug on Afghanistan and going home.

Mitch McConnell.But McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a recipe for catastrophe for the Russia economy. No partnership can account for the massive economic toll that we’ve talked about.

Mikhail Metzel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even before we took office, we knew the economic catastrophe we were inheriting, which promised to be long and deep, meant we faced a calamitous midterm, that meant if we wanted to accomplish anything meaningful, it would have to come in the first two years, when we had large majorities in both chambers. It's why President Obama moved the Affordable Care Act when he did.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was a disaster, it was a catastrophe, but for some reason, it was still funny.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If nothing turns out to be a catastrophe in the hospitals, then you’ll have that second mentality, but until we get to Jan. 15, nothing is going to be opening to that mentality. It’ll be more closed in, secure, confinement and restrictions. That is the pattern that we’re going to see.

Gilles LeVasseur

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a real catastrophe. It's not global warming, this is the manmade disaster. The Biden administration and his enablers like Cartel [Sen. Mark] Kelly have brought this on our country. People are going to die as a result of the failed Biden administration's policies.

Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

None of these issues we are experiencing are a or a result of some natural catastrophe. They're not God-made. They are all man-made, and they have all derived a result of [President] Biden and those who are around him. All of it.

Kathy Barnette

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a national emergency. America’s young adults — thousands of unsuspecting Americans — are being poisoned, it is widely known that illicit fentanyl is driving the massive spike in drug-related deaths. A new approach to this catastrophe is needed.

James Rauh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This district comes all the way down to McAllen, Texas, which is ground zero for the illegal immigration catastrophe that Biden has caused, hispanics are waking up and realizing that their values of faith, family, freedom — of supporting local border patrol and law enforcement officers — that those values align with the Republican Party and not the Democrat Party that's gone so far to the left.

De La Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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