calamity

Example Sentences

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Mr. Bird carried the weight of a calamity you never get over, and a lot of other weight, too, emerging as one of the most consequential figures in the history of American sport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

"For me, this is the first time I have experienced a calamity of this magnitude. Elders say a similar disaster took place in the 1990s," 24-year-old mechanic Tomaz Antonio Mlau says.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

Our report found that by the time of the Deepwater Horizon calamity, federal regulators had been routinely rubber-stamping new ventures into deep water.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

He packed Us scanty traps, not understanding what had happened, but feeling that he had escaped calamity by a hairbreadth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White