How to Use calamity in a Sentence

calamity

noun

• He predicted calamity for the economy.
• Beyond these current calamities lies a longer-term consequence that was by no means inevitable.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024
• The pair were likely sleeping as calamity unfolded behind the walls.
  — jsonline.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• But the fire still burned and as has ever happened in the face of calamity, marauding looters and thieves took advantage.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• The last time the Parma City Schools had a calamity day due to heat was in 2018.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
• The additional powers will remain in effect for at least three months or until the state of calamity in the entire country is lifted.
  — CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• When a disaster leaves a community homeless, many of its members wind up moving anyway rather than sticking around for the next calamity.
  — Jake Bittle, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2021
• What happens next Now that the withdrawal is complete, refugee groups, experts and advocates are bracing for a refugee crisis and economic calamity.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• In plain, spare prose, Hersey documents scenes of unprecedented ruin, capturing the ghostly residuum of calamity.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021
• Multiple audience members shared their dramatic video of the altercation after the gig ended in calamity.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2024
• In a second wave of calamity in the Northeast, fires broke out in swamped homes and businesses, many inaccessible to firefighters because of floodwaters.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2021
• Criticism is raining down on him, with Republicans blaming him for the calamity in Kabul and even Democrats breaking from him for the first time on a major issue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• 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 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024