calamity

Example Sentences

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It was a prelude to the chaos and calamity that was to come this season.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 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

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

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

As Mr. Coyle relates, one key to the miners’ survival and sanity seems to have been that, when the calamity engulfed them, no one took charge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

The peril of being trapped within the city, without hope of change until some calamity, weighed heavily upon me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson