Sentence examples for catastrophe struck from inspiring English sources
Then, suddenly, catastrophe struck.
But then catastrophe struck.
ON Sept. 11, catastrophe struck.
"But catastrophe struck on the 999th day".
This has raised fears that insurers could struggle to pay claims if some catastrophe struck.
With this particular client in turnaround, I was doing well until catastrophe struck.
When a catastrophe strikes the narrator's wife and son, the reader is left gasping, unsure for a moment how to respond.
Catastrophe strikes on 29 June, when the Globe burns to the ground after a prop cannon sets fire to the thatch during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
Imagine, says one, that financial catastrophe strikes a whole bunch of triple-A tranches bought by a "monoline" insurance company (an insurance company set up with the sole purpose of guaranteeing such asset-backed securities).
Because he wants to be president, and he knows that he will be helped to this, in France, by showing that the state cares when catastrophe strikes even the poorest and meanest citizen.
She combined the long-term hurricane record with new data on property exposure -- building-replacement costs by ZIP code, engineering reports, local building codes, etc. -- and wound up with a crude but powerful tool, both for judging the probability of a catastrophe striking any one area and for predicting the losses it might inflict.
