How to Use calamity in a Sentence

calamity

noun

• He predicted calamity for the economy.
• 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.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• The band didn't find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
  — John Carucci, Cincinnati.com, 3 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 last time the Parma City Schools had a calamity day due to heat was in 2018.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Its namesake bell, changed out for a siren in the 1920s, was meant to avoid such calamities in the future.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
• 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
• There is far more in this book than just a revision of the Franklin calamity.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2018
• But the calamity that Kopenawa warns of is a global one.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
• Hours later, body bags lay spread on the ground near the trailer as a grim symbol of the calamity.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• The very act of watching over the grill — tongs in hand, your mind laser-focused on the meats — serves as a hedge against calamity.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
• The defense, which was a calamity at times, needs an upgrade.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Goyal talks about him with a teary-eyed smile — one that hides two years of sheer calamity.
  — NBC News, 13 Nov. 2021
• Making up snow days or calamity days has changed due to state rules.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Then a different kind of calamity struck close to home.
  — Melissa Brown, USA Today, 17 June 2021
• The proximate seeds of this calamity were planted last spring.
  — Victor Cha, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025