How to Use calamity in a Sentence

calamity

noun

• He predicted calamity for the economy.
• This calamity demands public discussions about the value of health care work.
  — Harris Solomon, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
• Even a split-second delay or if there was noise on the transmission could lead to a calamity in this rather farfetched scenario.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• The healthcare workers worry that people do not understand the calamity at hand.
  — The Enquirer, 24 Jan. 2022
• This calamity had two parts: your vulnerability to guilt, and her brazen exploitation of it.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
• That’s a cheap shot by Finebaum, given Browns fans had a close-up look at the Manziel calamity in Cleveland.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2022
• Scientists have long warned of the calamity that could result from rising global temperatures.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
• Shocked by the unexpected calamity, both ordinary wage earners and businesspeople braced themselves for the worst.
  — Paul Vachon, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2021
• To see real grit and determination, find someone who is working hard at multiple jobs while raising kids, even in the face of one calamity after another.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• The General Assembly should begin work in earnest in next year’s session on a comprehensive plan to forestall these calamities.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2024
• Battles over how to approach the calamity hinge upon the debate between those who seek to find balance with nature and those who prefer embracing the individual at all costs, including death.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2022
• All night, the sounds of calamity broke the sleep of the displaced.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The band didn't find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
  — John Carucci, Cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The band didn’t find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• Kinchen had the wound patched up, but that wasn’t the end of the calamity.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• Think of the riotous calamity of two weeks in the dark.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
• The last few months have brought a string of calamities in Japan.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• Kipling said that the hand of friendship averts the whip of calamity.
  — Parag Khanna, Esquire, 6 Oct. 2008
• Link and his friends fight a great war to save the land of Hyrule from, well, calamity.
  — Shannon Liao, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• The longer this goes on, the greater the chances of a calamity in the financial system.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• At some point, the rest of them just shear off, and the result is calamity.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• The state views the risk of calamity as low and the cost of preventing it to be high.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• The hours are long, the pay mediocre, the risk of calamity never quite over the horizon.
  — Wired, 9 Oct. 2019
• The White House keeps warning that Europe is on the cusp of a calamity.
  — Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
• If rates stay that low, the U.S could could forestall a calamity for a few years.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The tweak was meant to ease financial woes caused by the Covid calamity.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
• Then calamity struck in the second game of the 1989 season, when Woods tore the ACL in his left knee.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Clement is kind of a walking calamity, way in over his head.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• And if your house were to burn down, or some other calamity, the hard drive would go with it.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
• The coronavirus outbreak of 2020 ushered in the latest calamities, some of whose side effects still plague the economy.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024