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

On Sunday, one club could go a long way to saving their season and edging the other towards the drop as crisis meets calamity.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Then, just after the calamity of World War II, in a remote corner of eastern France, he moved Modernism’s goal posts with a single, eccentric, transcendent project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Mr. Bird carried the weight of a calamity you never get over, and a lot of other weight, too, emerging as one of the most consequential figures in the history of American sport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

I was broadcasting across the scatterfeed, going, helplessly, We enter a time of calamity!

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson