How to Use calamity in a Sentence

calamity

noun

• He predicted calamity for the economy.
• The movie pulls us into the heart of an American revolt that turned into an American calamity.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2021
• Will this be a five-hankie tearjerker, or a Collateral Beauty–style calamity?
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Failure to reach a course-changing agreement could usher in the environmental calamity scientists have been warning about for years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• Patrick Crusius worried that Texas — hot and dry and facing climate calamity — was being overrun by immigrants.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
• And his body-threatening, life-changing calamity, as the pages of Small Rain turn, ultimately becomes a deep, transformative gift.
  — Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
• If organizations don’t come to grips with their past—and then figure out a plan to address this leadership reckoning—the resulting calamity may be perpetual.
  — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• Those who were toward the back right, like 43-year-old Loredo resident Carlos Cuevas, knew the crowds were tight but didn’t see much of the calamity further ahead.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2021
• With yet another meteor shower heading toward Smallville, Clark races against the clock to unite the stones and prevent calamity in one of the show's most thrilling episodes ever.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• The upcoming meeting in Glasgow, Guterres insisted, presents a possible turning point in the face of looming calamity.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• The issue is that the disaster fund has already been partly depleted from dealing with earlier calamities, including floods, tornadoes, and wildfires.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
• All night, the sounds of calamity broke the sleep of the displaced.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The band didn't find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
  — John Carucci, Cincinnati.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The band didn’t find out about the calamity until the end of the show.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• Kinchen had the wound patched up, but that wasn’t the end of the calamity.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• Think of the riotous calamity of two weeks in the dark.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
• Yes, but: Harvard avoided total calamity in large part because of its endowment, according to the latest annual financial report.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
• The last few months have brought a string of calamities in Japan.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• Kipling said that the hand of friendship averts the whip of calamity.
  — Parag Khanna, Esquire, 6 Oct. 2008
• Link and his friends fight a great war to save the land of Hyrule from, well, calamity.
  — Shannon Liao, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• The longer this goes on, the greater the chances of a calamity in the financial system.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• At some point, the rest of them just shear off, and the result is calamity.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• The state views the risk of calamity as low and the cost of preventing it to be high.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• The hours are long, the pay mediocre, the risk of calamity never quite over the horizon.
  — Wired, 9 Oct. 2019
• The White House keeps warning that Europe is on the cusp of a calamity.
  — Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
• If rates stay that low, the U.S could could forestall a calamity for a few years.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The tweak was meant to ease financial woes caused by the Covid calamity.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
• Then calamity struck in the second game of the 1989 season, when Woods tore the ACL in his left knee.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Clement is kind of a walking calamity, way in over his head.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• As if hurricanes aren't bad enough, the government is warning of another calamity that's expected to hit soon — one that will likely reach every corner of our country: Disaster fraud scams.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024