calamities

Example Sentences

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The suit was brought by relatives of Samya Stumo, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, the second of two MAX calamities that together claimed 346 lives.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

To underline the obvious once more: The college football media ecosystem is not built to handle human calamities like this.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 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

We can empathize with the calamities that prompted these characters to take such foolish chances, but we would never make those choices ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Martha went on, speaking of different calamities magic had brought, and the gossip about the girl who could turn straw into gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff