cataclysm - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • creation: Taking his lead from Plato, Alan brought out for the first time the highly spiritual nature of the cataclysm of creation.
  • war: The letters present a portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war.
  • proportion: The local October wildfires created a cataclysm of historic proportion.

Converse of subject

  • destroy: According to the legend, vast lengths of the tunnels still exist today; the rest have been destroyed by cataclysms.

Converse of object

  • survive: But everyone was just so glad to be alive and to have survived the cataclysm that became known as the Great War.
  • cause: They show that a cataclysm caused by natural processes almost brought life on earth to an end.
  • face: This journey was necessary because the homeland was facing cataclysm - sinking, as legend has it.
  • personify: The Great God and Great Goddess personified the cataclysm of creation and the formative Universe.
  • trigger: Only a fraction of it has to melt to trigger a cataclysm.
  • come: Soon after William's death came the cataclysm that was the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Adjective modifier

  • natural: The stress of puberty is the most intense natural cataclysm that a growing child has to undergo.
  • great: By the event of the first great cataclysm, Atlantis was firmly established in many areas of the Earth.
  • cosmic: We cannot undo the cosmic cataclysm of the Fall by making astronomical measurements or adjustments.
  • final: This has been called the " cyclic uproar " and is a final, all-engulfing cataclysm.
  • massive: Legend says that the island of Atlantis was sunk beneath the waves 11,000 years ago by a massive cataclysm.
  • historical: Q: ( L ) Was there any historical cataclysm recorded in history that we could relate to that passing?

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