calamity

Example Sentences

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The world has regularly obliged by rushing to buy Treasury debt at a lower yield than before the calamity because of the risk-free securities’ haven status.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

In keeping with this trippy, but utterly wonderful, championship, Duhan van der Merwe is also out, a loss that would have been seen as an absolute calamity not that long ago.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 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

Cal caught a feeling—a feeling of calamity, of destruction in the air, and a weight of sickness overwhelmed him.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck