How to Use calamitous in a Sentence

calamitous

adjective

• Grow up, man/woman up, understand that the world is a big, sometimes calamitous place and deal with it.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Drones are already used by fire brigades; some helped to survey for damage at Grenfell Tower after the calamitous fire last year.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• That competition had federal funding and was a response to calamitous damage.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• A week before Biden’s calamitous June debate that put in motion the drumbeat that marched him aside, Trump was polling 10 points ahead.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Ten years after the calamitous Battle of the Breach, the world has become somewhat complacent in its defense, thinking the threat extinguished.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2018
• First, personalism makes calamitous mistakes more likely, as policy follows the whims of an individual.
  — Jeremy Wallace, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• And such awareness will also be a necessity should one or all of these platforms — through more brazen exploitation, calamitous hacking or even greater sharing with governments — cause us to well and truly lose faith.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• Nobody sees such overreach producing anything as calamitous as Mao’s Great Leap Forward and subsequent famine.
  — Chris Buckley and Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• The Eras Tour is the most calamitous movie event since Barbie.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• The calamitous state of the garage had long been a source of concern among owners.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 July 2021
• The names bring a shudder in our decade of calamitous wildfires.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Since the economy’s calamitous plunge in the spring of 2020, the state has been clawing its way back in fits and starts.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 13 Dec. 2021
• And then there was a run on the pound and a calamitous series of mortgage-rate rises.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Many of the same factors that made the Carr Fire so calamitous are fueling the Camp Fire right now.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 14 Nov. 2018
• The calamitous tone on the topic has persisted for a while.
  — Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• That note, too, made it to the press, where it was picked up broadly as a calamitous sign for Beijing.
  — Rob Copeland, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• But, as the pages of the calendar have turned to the warmer months of the year, the Sox refused to let the calamitous turn of events put a frost on Fenway.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
• But in the 26 months since that calamitous decision, the question of blame has widened in the minds of many Ukrainians.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
• After the calamitous sucker-punch of the Great Depression, a guy didn’t want to be a sap.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
• This is what happens when the Hoosiers are 5-2 and the Cornhuskers have lost two of their past three games in calamitous fashion.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2019
• But Modi’s effort to prevent the spread of the virus will lead to its own calamitous damage.
  — Vindu Goel, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2020
• This calamitous cascade is known as the Kessler Syndrome.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2020
• So where’s the El Niño that’s supposed to turn this into a wet, calamitous winter?
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• But a cold eye is required for her legacy, which has been calamitous.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Failing to send promised LNG cargo at the height of winter could prove calamitous.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• Painting is a way of providing a balm, to artist and viewer alike, in a calamitous era.
  — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• That's far from calamitous, although the trend is moving in the wrong direction for him.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• But closer to home, the results can be calamitous, laying out cities.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• This was Year 2 of 3 in what turned out to be, from a roster-building standpoint, the calamitous Chip Kelly Era.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 8 May 2018
• In the nine decades since, the business has witnessed a calamitous world war, a radical change in the way men dress, and a once-in-a-century pandemic.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024