How to Use calamitous in a Sentence

calamitous

adjective

• 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
• At the upper levels, the disruption to the school schedule could prove calamitous.
  — Anna Fifield, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
• But lately, my go-tos couldn’t quell the anxiety triggered by calamitous news updates.
  — Magdalena Puniewska, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2020
• That’s not very many in a nation of more than one billion people, many of whom live in dense slums; experts warn that a wider outbreak there could be calamitous.
  — Patrick J. Lyons, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
• The grim figures point to an economy that is tumbling into what appears to be a calamitous recession, the worst in decades.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2020
• Those companies have a lot going for them, though they’ll still be affected in a calamitous economic downtown.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2020
• But in 2011, Tegan’s personal computer files were hacked, setting off a calamitous chain of events.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 30 July 2024
• Others argue it’s too much of a financial burden during calamitous economic times and a global pandemic.
  — oregonlive, 2 May 2020
• Bonds Bonds tend to provide a nice financial cushion when stocks sink, although the calamitous market events of 2022 prove that the rule doesn’t always hold.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• Instead of a reckless plan that would place the affordable housing infrastructure on a calamitous course, the administration should focus on the causes of high rents.
  — Joseph Strasburg, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• With so many Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, unable to cover a $400 emergency, this delay could be calamitous.
  — Joseph E. Stiglitz For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• That would let the courts ponder it without the threat that an adverse ruling would prove calamitous.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
• The calamitous series of events have sparked protest after protest against the government.
  — Matt Rivers, CNN, 17 Oct. 2020
• Those things don't happen here anymore but a loss 4-0 is flirting with the same kind of calamitous results.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2020
• The effects of burning coal have been irrefutably calamitous.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024