calamity

Example Sentences

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In the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge until these calamities shall be overcome.

From Literature

“We need a greater collective sense of these ongoing calamities as the new normal,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

But the 2001-02 crash proved GMO magnificently right, and people and money reversed course back to the formerly shunned Boston calamity howlers.

From The Wall Street Journal

That does not mean there are no other winners and losers from England's latest calamity down under.

From BBC

Swiss President Guy Parmelin, who took over on Thursday, called the fire "a calamity of unprecedented, terrifying proportions", and announced that flags would be flown at half mast for five days.

From Barron's