Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use calamity in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Calamity means an event resulting in great loss. Example: “This calamity morphed into a mud flow kilometers long that smothered a village.”

More sentences with calamity

  • This calamity morphed into a mud flow kilometers long that smothered a village.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry mud flow
  • But trust me, I'll be dropping some truth nukes on that calamity as well.2020, Robert Young, Ian Jacklin, Alkaline: Dr. Robert O Young's PH Diet & Mindset, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry truth nuke
  • Poisonous residues carelessly treated today can produce calamities miles away and decades later.1986, Benjamin Walter, Malcolm Getz, “Social and Economic Effects of Toxic Waste Disposal”, in Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert O’Brien…. From the entry dioxin
  • Umberto, most of them, like me, victims of genitourinary calamities.2011, Donald O'Donovan, Tarantula Woman. From the entry gunneress
  • The psalm expresses security in God and gives assurance of Divine protection from dangers and calamities with which life is beset.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 384. From the entry antidemonic
  • The Earth could be on the brink of a death-dealing calamity — and belching cows are partly to blame.1988 January 12, Weekly World News, volume 9, number 14, page 36. From the entry cowtastrophe
  • There will be natural and man-made calamities.1984 March 22 [1984 March 17], “Henan Letters Reflect Feudal Superstitions”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 057, Foreign…. From the entry Suiping
  • Once Toby was underway, and as the day had ooched forward without further calamity, Randy and Matthew made a quick escape for some necessary errands.2003, Helen Baldwin, chapter 75, in The Jeffrey Journey, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry ooch
  • There will be calamities, maudlin melodramas, and mucho pathos at Cries & Whispers--A Tragedy Club, which seeks to reverse our town's love of comedy.1989 December 22, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry mucho
  • Darius, evoked from Hades to bring relief to the desperate condition of his realm, announces a yet greater calamity to befall his people.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 80. From the entry supernaturalism
  • We are rapidly reversing the economic calamity we inherited from the previous administration, including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation, inflation like we've never had before.2025 September 23, Donald Trump, speech at United Nations. From the entry ruinous
  • Had my Government remained on the mainland, there would never have been such calamities as the Korean War and the Communist occupation of northern Korea and northern Indo-China.1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Conclusion”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and…. From the entry mainland China
  • To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility might have filled volumes.1925 April, Virginia Woolf, “Notes on an Elizabethan Play”, in The Common Reader, 2nd edition, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the…. From the entry illumine

Meaning of calamity

  1. noun An event resulting in great loss.
  2. noun The distress that results from some disaster.

Full definition of calamity

Questions about calamity in a sentence

How do you use calamity in a sentence?
Calamity is used as a noun. For example: “This calamity morphed into a mud flow kilometers long that smothered a village.”
What is a short sentence with calamity?
“There will be natural and man-made calamities.”
What does calamity mean?
Calamity means an event resulting in great loss.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: calamity (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use calamity in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/calamity. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.