calamities
Example Sentences
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“We would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays,” wrote Salman Rushdie in a memoir, adapting a somewhat similar remark by Samuel Beckett.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
We will treat on-field screw-ups like national calamities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Since this region has seen calamities in the past as well, these are certainly symptoms of a deeper underlying cause -- whether climate change or other factors," he said on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“It was these calamities that transformed my people into slavers,” Galazza Galare had told her, at the Temple of the Graces.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
