Sentence examples for terrifying catastrophe from inspiring English sources

It is based on the real-life incident of 1996, when an attempt to climb Mount Everest ended in a terrifying catastrophe.

But regardless, it's inspiring to see Lac Mégantic in such high spirits after a terrifying catastrophe.

Her mother was terrified that some catastrophe would befall her if she let her out of her sight: she would slip and injure herself, or drown in the tub.

It was the accident pilots and passengers in the still-new jet age had feared the most — a distinctly new kind of catastrophe, one that had never happened over a major urban area, one that would have seemed far less terrifying a few years earlier, when planes were smaller and slower.

But it's terrifying to realize that this kind of cynical careerism — for that's what it is — has probably ensured that we won't do anything about climate change until catastrophe is already upon us.

Also terrifying.

Mostly terrifying.

Frightening, terrifying.

Actually, terrifying.

Too terrifying.

But terrifying.