calamities

Example Sentences

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They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025

And not far from the park, an army of trees is being grown as a sort of insurance policy for such calamities.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

The calamities in the past two years, including a fatal magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2024, have devastated the county's tourism industry, Ms Yang said.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

There is a way that these repetitive movements can ward off calamities, outfox deterioration, at least to a point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 11, 2025

And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya