How to Use calamity in a Sentence

calamity

noun
  • He predicted calamity for the economy.
  • Kinchen had the wound patched up, but that wasn’t the end of the calamity.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The last few months have brought a string of calamities in Japan.
    — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Making up snow days or calamity days has changed due to state rules.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Kipling said that the hand of friendship averts the whip of calamity.
    — Parag Khanna, Esquire, 6 Oct. 2008
  • All night, the sounds of calamity broke the sleep of the displaced.
    — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The band didn’t find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The band didn't find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
    — John Carucci, Cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • At some point, the rest of them just shear off, and the result is calamity.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
  • So the war stands as a strategic failure and a moral calamity.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Goyal talks about him with a teary-eyed smile — one that hides two years of sheer calamity.
    — NBC News, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Link and his friends fight a great war to save the land of Hyrule from, well, calamity.
    — Shannon Liao, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And if your house were to burn down, or some other calamity, the hard drive would go with it.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The defense, which was a calamity at times, needs an upgrade.
    — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Putin's war against Ukraine is thus not only a calamity in its own right.
    — Ulrich Schlie and Thomas Weber, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The state views the risk of calamity as low and the cost of preventing it to be high.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Amid the calamity, thieves in boats are raiding homes at night, locals said.
    — Insiya Syed, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Dems don’t need big beautiful calamity to win the midterms.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 16 July 2025
  • There was nothing left of the garage, and few signs that such a calamity had happened.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Then three days before the grand reveal, calamity struck.
    — Su-Jit Lin, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But even if all those calamities come to pass, hey, Thomas still loves his partner.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The next few days and weeks will be ones of calamity and devastation.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The tweak was meant to ease financial woes caused by the Covid calamity.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
  • There is far more in this book than just a revision of the Franklin calamity.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Less than an hour earlier, calamity had hung heavy in the Parisian sky.
    — Tom Williams, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • But this is far from the first time that the Academy has had to adapt to calamity.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The longer this goes on, the greater the chances of a calamity in the financial system.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • After the calamity occurs, the movie, for a while, loses its pace.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The hours are long, the pay mediocre, the risk of calamity never quite over the horizon.
    — Wired, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Hours later, body bags lay spread on the ground near the trailer as a grim symbol of the calamity.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022

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