calamity

Example Sentences

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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

“The worst calamity that everyone had in mind didn’t happen,” said Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden & Rygel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

It was the beginning of an utter calamity out of touch for Ewan Ashman, in particular, and his successor, George Turner.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 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

And lam the calamity that will change these slavers back into people, Dany had sworn to herself.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin