calamitous
Example Sentences
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After a calamitous nine days—broken-down negotiations, hurt feelings, and bitter social-media posts—Boston sent Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Zubrin linked Musk's potential for failure to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's calamitous campaign in Russia.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
After the spray of resignations, fury and anger a month ago following Labour's calamitous election results, the Makerfield by-election campaign had put a temporary cork in the bottle of the party's dissent.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Malcolm in the Middle,” a popular series about a tightly knit calamitous family of weirdos and the relatively less weird child at its center, is back after 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Now, on the rebound from my calamitous entanglement with the nordwand, I was prepared to lower my sights.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing calamitous
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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