calamity

Example Sentences

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On Sunday, one club could go a long way to saving their season and edging the other towards the drop as crisis meets calamity.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

But Hanke warned that lawmakers were basing their policy decisions on fears of an unlikely calamity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Then, just after the calamity of World War II, in a remote corner of eastern France, he moved Modernism’s goal posts with a single, eccentric, transcendent project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

He also said that the government had declared a "state of calamity" in Juiz de Fora.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

T Ihe calamity which cast the world into flame occurred early on an April morning, when all was still black night.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson