calamity
IPA: kʌɫˈæmʌti
noun
- An event resulting in great loss.
- The distress that results from some disaster.
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Examples of "calamity" in Sentences
- There was the calamity on the radio show.
- Calamity after calamity has struck the country.
- It is the final film in the 'Calamity Anne' series.
- 'Access' to the DC in the event of a natural calamity.
- “An earth-shattering calamity is about to happen,” he writes.
- The Wyld within the Wyrm is the Beast of War, the face of calamity.
- The hidden hand behind this unsanitary calamity is the US government.
- But the trip was not to be, for an unforeseen calamity befell the nation.
- Following the disaster of the 1904 fire, financial calamity hit the nation.
- A calamity of the foregoing motives and themes ensues as the conflict drags on.
- A calamity is the shortage of such utensils as sweepers, brooms, brushes and rags for cleaning.
- When deviant behaviour exists with the cowardly behaviour of leaders, calamity is the next step.
- Judge will speedily take vengeance; the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
- The prediction of this calamity is here given very largely, and in lively expressions, which one would think should have awakened and affected the most stupid.
- This calamity is exactly what happened to my Uncle Joseph, who was removed from my grandparents when he was a toddler and sent to the Texas State School because he had begun acting out in rage at his inability to communicate with others.
- Happening now, Robert Gates officially taking charge of the Pentagon and the troubled war in Iraq with a swearing in ceremony -- he's warning that failure in Iraq would be what he called a calamity that would haunt the U.S. -- his words -- for decades.
- This calamity is the more heavy, as it carries with it a great disappointment; for very near our habitation was a high wall, the sunny side of which was covered with the most delicious fruits; peaches, apricots, nectarines, &c. all just then ripening; and I thought of having such a feast with my children as I had never enjoyed in my life.
- A few pale figures were to be distinguished at the accustomed resort at the Tuileries; they wondered wherefore the islanders should approach their ill-fated city -- for in the excess of wretchedness, the sufferers always imagine, that their part of the calamity is the bitterest, as, when enduring intense pain, we would exchange the particular torture we writhe under, for any other which should visit a different part of the frame.