Example Sentences

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His riding four-seam fastball sits at 95 mph and tops out at 99, paired cataclysmically with a put-away curve.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

The enormous volumes of greenhouse gases emitted in this time warmed Earth cataclysmically.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2022

This mess has been cataclysmically rough on everybody, in ways most of us could never have imagined.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2021

For the people in Rikers, the virus appears to be spreading cataclysmically, in a population that’s particularly vulnerable to its effects.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2020

It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson