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Example sentences for: calamity

How can you use “calamity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Financial Times of London called the collapse of the WTO talks a "disaster" and a "calamity" for which the United States and the European Union were mostly to blame.
In the 1960s, a revisionist school of economic historians proved that limiting wheat exports would have made only a puny dent in the calamity.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., famously put it--have we also reduced the threshold for commonly accepted calamity?
Its lyrics argue that labeling the calamity "famine" fails to draw enough attention to the British role in provoking it.
At 9:00, the PAPD commanding officer of the WTC ordered an evacuation of all civilians in the World Trade Center complex, because of the magnitude of the calamity in the North Tower.