CALAMITY


Meaning of CALAMITY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Hurricane George was just the latest calamity to hit the state.

Singh told reporters that he had not seen such human suffering in any previous natural calamity .

The flood was a calamity from which Bangladesh has never fully recovered.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At her readers, she throws the challenge of accepting that any friendship could survive those calamities.

Better therefore to try to anticipate such a calamity by assuming the role of an active and vigilant peace-maker.

Financial support in the future should be designed to support farmers when calamities occur, and not to control their lives.

Multiple calamities had come to mind.

No calamity in this house, eh?

Other research demonstrated that should Canterbury Cathedral collapse in some dreadful calamity , it would actually pay the city to rebuild it.

This, he said, although giving temporary surcease was the road to calamity .

Yet just then, amid industrial calamity , Taylor landed his apprenticeship.

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