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Sentence Examples In the few seconds before my lucidity gave way to blind panic, I felt no little sympathy for the poor chap as he faced this calamity. What new calamity could be taking shape in the odd disasters of recent weeks? One morning's natural calamity has delivered tens of thousands of new victims. To the extent that the pessimism is based on fears of an election day terrorist calamity, it's hard to argue with. Plan for stress, say the experts, just like you plan ahead for any calamity you want to avoid. The photography, buttressed by watchful blocking and acting, invites careful consideration of the calamity as opposed to tantalization. Though it appears to be a natural calamity, to a great extent drought is a man-made calamity. After unloading, I decided it would be prudent to park in the lot rather than risk further calamity. The areas that were most damaged by the calamity is certainly back on its feet. It has shown its capacity to plan ahead and be ever ready for any calamity or disaster that may beset the country. Before the oil well calamity, villagers there led a peaceful life, getting along with each other in harmony. Which devastating calamity is to come our way, hyperinflation or collapsing deflation? There may come to us some shattering calamity or dreadful disappointment or some moral failure. There were those indeed who believed this calamity marked the end of the world. It will work towards creating public awareness, mitigation and taking action when a calamity strikes. Despite this calamity they managed to recount their story without any bitterness on the pilgrim walk. In the face of this calamity, the puzzle remains why so many settlers moved to a place that turned out to be so inhospitable. As in all the best musicals, the potential for calamity hangs precariously throughout the movie. Earth was among the many planets destroyed in this calamity, and many humans were lost also. It wasn't long before an even greater calamity than sea sickness set upon them. Show More Sentences Normally we develop the feelings of fear because we assume that any mishappening or calamity may fall on us any time all of a sudden. A campaign which started with calamity in Moscow, ended disjointedly in Basle last night. Perhaps more than a handful of those members have come to understand the potential calamity of a precipitate withdrawal. Citizen Paul of Tarsus is allotted a Galilean ancestry and a wife and family who may have died in some calamity. Is there anything a CEO can do to prevent a calamity in making an acquisition? The enormous wartime demand lifted prices and finally ended more than a decade of calamity and collapse on the American farm. We also express our gratitude to the media who were quickly on the scene and gave creditable coverage of the calamity. A weird supernatural calamity has thrust part of Japan up into the air like a tower. Had the government acted in time with a firm determination, the calamity would have been averted? I only long that we as individuals and as Calvinistic Baptists be Godlike in our response to this calamity. Each character faces calamity and lives in a time of upheaval, and each is influenced by those events. Disaster follows on the heels of calamity for the northernmost part of North America. Speaking of the next step, for families who have lost someone in this calamity, what's the next step for them? Chaos reigned as officials and reporters haplessly endeavoured to stay calm through the calamity and make some sense of the senseless. Moreover, rather than simply stringing together a series of events, Swisher bests Klein by explaining how and why the calamity unfolded. Unfortunately, historical reality is no respecter of conventional wisdom and often requires it to change course if calamity is to be avoided. Whenever any calamity, disaster or accident occurs, their team arrives there as volunteers for relief work. I shared my observations on calamity avoidance by the CEO in major acquisitions. Yes, this country could be devastated by terrorism, or a meteor strike, or some economic calamity. Nearly every calamity and malady known to humankind has a saint to look after it. Show More Sentences The worst economic calamity to befall a family, and especially women and children, is divorce. Such acts invoke the asuras in dreams and visions and invite calamity in your life. His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession. Listening to the tape, it seems that the controller takes a few seconds to absorb the scale of the calamity after the bird strike. Lebanon, always on the edge of calamity, but too complicated for most people to figure out. But their arrival was experienced by Indians, who found their worlds abruptly overturned, as a calamity. I suppose they did not think that, having been published before the deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide calamity, the abolisher of all things. How, then, did the first day of the Christmas-shopping season come to have the coloration of calamity? In the sudden calamity that presaged the sinking, it is possible the skipper or a flying object in the wheelhouse knocked the joystick control to one side. One cause of such calamity is clematis wilt, a fungal disease. What is happening in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti is nothing short of a calamity. It is inexplicable that these women find optimism amid calamity when like lemmings our young rush to enlist in the politics of cynicism amid relative fortune. I realised how entirely of its time it was, experimenting with calamity as a moral opportunity. Corruption, suspicion, and a lack of doctors all add up to a growing calamity in Freetown. I often think about the fall lines of life, the invisible tightropes that divide moments of calamity and serendipity. His work continues to present a double vision, one touched by both calamity and glee, and whose self-consciously public language underscores its highly personal timbre. While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, the calamity of a potential default has tempered neither judgment nor passion. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bailey, commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, visited the site of the calamity the following morning. We don't mistake it as a sign from God of an impending calamity. Show More Sentences Be it a natural calamity or a Naxalite attack, he used to rush even to the remotest corners of the state to personally supervise the relief operations. The skipper was experienced and had faced worse seas before and so sudden was the calamity which overwhelmed him that he was unable to send out a Mayday call. Despite the looming calamity, no one has confronted the core problem. Ratios are now commonly being used as euphemisms to express calamity. Batman and Robin was such a calamity that it was easy to reboot. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. The latest calamity is a buddy-movie comedy starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube that comes with as many laughs as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. With four minutes remaining in the half, a defensive calamity between keeper Jamie Ewings and John Tambouras handed Ronan Finn an easy goal. Language like that is a lubricant to the calamity all around us. Still, it would be nice to know the expiration date on this calamity. In the case of the New Orleans Saints, the middle management failed to echo the league's tone, and the compliance calamity ensued. Whether the calamity happens naturally, or whether it is due to the harm of others, being patient and perseverant results in a lot of reward. Although rice was abundant in Ayutthaya, rice export was banned from time to time when famine occurred because of natural calamity or war. In the 9th century, however, the Tang government was nearly helpless in dealing with any calamity. The instability at court came right as natural calamity, pestilence, rebellion, and foreign invasion came to a peak. He could be liberal to impoverished Senators and equestrians and to cities and towns desolated by natural calamity. Despite the calamity and huge death toll, Lisbon suffered no epidemics and within less than one year was already being rebuilt. The Scots faced a calamity at the Battle of Verneuil in 1424, when they lost 6000 men. As a result, the rise of California was a calamity for the native inhabitants. William sought to prevent the Spanish inheritance from going to either monarch, for he feared that such a calamity would upset the balance of power. Show More Sentences The melting of the permafrost and the release of methane hydrate is perhaps the biggest single calamity that mankind faces and it's all down to human-induced global warming. It would not be surprising that a great calamity is truly imminent with much wailing and gnashing of teeth not unlike the exodus out of Egypt into the land of milk and honey. Angered by their crime and their calamity, I drafted Execution Poems in two weeks And Gaspereau Press sentenced it As a big, black book, a folio, two-feet long, One-foot wide. Homeporting a CVN at NAVSTA Mayport reduces risks to fleet resources in the event of natural disaster, manmade calamity, or attack by foreign nations or terrorists. Calamity promises the patrons of the Garter that she will personally bring Miss Adams back from Chicago to South Dakota. Toyah Willcox returns to the stage to play Calamity, a role made famous on the Hollywood screen by Doris Day. Calamity Jane is an action-packed, rip-roaring roller coaster of a show with one of the most witty and memorable musical scores. Once again the members of the Musical Society were tramping the boards in their latest production Calamity Jane. Calamity struck when Elbert's death revealed that he had remortgaged his house once too often. Calamity struck when the cradle on the trailer collapsed and crushed her boat. Born in 1852 in Missouri, Calamity was an excellent horsewoman and gunslinger, and got by as an express rider, cook, dance-hall girl and prostitute. She received A grades in her GCSEs and A Levels and participated in productions such as Calamity Jane and Guys and Dolls. Lots of other cowpokes and Wild West hot shots, such as Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill, stayed at the hotel, too. South of the confluence of Indian Pass Brook and Calamity Brook, the Hudson River flows south into Sanford Lake. Examples from Classical Literature She, indeed, was ill-pleased with the tidings and felt instinctively that some calamity was about to befall. We extend to Mr. P. our sincere sympathy in the greatest calamity that can befall an unmarriageable man. No doubt about it, the whole calamity to court and nation was the work of furioso, and he had got the princess. Three things have happened, either one of which would alone have been a calamity. Since the calamity which had befallen, her manner towards gloam had undergone a change. The gnomic poets show how guilt, if unavenged at the moment, brings calamity upon the offspring of the evil-doer. And when the storm of the Great Rebellion broke over the land, its vast calamity absorbed all minor griefs. Doubtless posterity has acquired a better city by the calamity of that generation. We all know the extent and the grievousness of the calamity it has wrought on the universe. The reporter who invents an incident, or heightens the horror of a calamity by fictions is in the case of Shapiro. What horrible thing, what calamity that frightened my soul to think of, had fallen on me? The fall of the campanile in 1904 was regarded as a calamity by all the civilized world. Augustine was still busied in the Pelagian controversy when a fearful calamity burst upon his country. Tune the pipes to the tragedy of tallow, the bane of bulk, the calamity of corpulence. One moment of heedless inconsideration may plunge thee in years of calamity. Herodian says, no doubt with some exaggeration, that this was the greatest calamity which had ever befallen the Romans. I see myself now, face downwards in the orchard grass, broken-hearted by the calamity. This calamity is not the work of the unprovoked fury of the angry elements. Even the most stony-hearted were touched by the awfulness of this great calamity. An ominous leave-taking was his, and calamity was there to greet him home again. Show More Sentences The death of the firstborn, which occurred in April, was evidently not a natural calamity. After these events, a messenger was despatched to Lacedaemon with news of the calamity. But she knew that she had survived them, that some great calamity had fallen upon and destroyed them. At most, with his looseness of morality, he regards debt as an inconvenience, not as a calamity. Your mistress, doited devil, as I maun ca her, ought to be skelpit wi nettles for this calamity. Snow notes as a calamity the death of his milch cow, which had been driven all the way from Ohio. His death was a terrible calamity, as well as a most afflictive bereavement. This new and unlooked for calamity created a ferment in the minds of the natives. Dazed by the suddenness of the calamity, Carr turned to look at the altimeter. The darts of calamity may assail her on every side, but she is invulnerable to them all. Harrison was sought and finally found but was too effulgent to realize the calamity. Emancipation has ridded the country of the reproach, but not wholly of the calamity. Shall not His evangel be accused as the cause of all calamity which is like to follow? This is the fifth time to-day that the procession goes its round, that the reliquary is borne on high, to exorcize the calamity. This was quite a calamity in itself, for he is pure-bred and the children had hopes of him. For that it was a prognostic of some fearful calamity, no one thought of doubting. A strange thing in the air that is said, in these parts, to foretell calamity. Once this procedure was the cause of a calamity of which Sebastijonas Szedvilas was the hapless victim. Eventually, every calamity that happened thereabouts was laid at the door of that music. The beginning and root of this woful calamity was a light look. Show More Sentences We cheered, thinking some dire calamity had befallen the enemy. Even Woola seemed to feel the weight of the impending calamity, for he pressed close to Dejah Thoris and to me, whining pitifully. Accounting for less than 1 percent of world exports, it is clear that Africa will never emerge from the AIDS calamity on its own. As you may imagine, the calamity roused the rage of the competing boat. Shall we venture to pronounce, therefore, that his long and black calamity may not have had a redeeming drop of mercy at the bottom? The crimean war was now deplored as a calamity, if not a crime. This calamity so disheartened him that he lost all his strength. It is not the will of God that we seek out, and even invite, calamity. We were resolved to succeed or fail together, after the calamity had befallen us as much as before. We are less than ghosts, for the time being, whenever this calamity befalls us. Do not think that calamity has chilled my heart, or enervated my mind. Soon after the publication of the book, a great calamity came on Fielding. Did I not say to you that the lady had a noble 'art, and would show it when put to the test by sech a calamity as this? Bartram's unexpected departure, as if it had been the shock of the severest calamity that could have befallen her. For three years past, this grievous calamity had been borne. It seemed a small loss to others, but to Jo it was a dreadful calamity, and she felt that it never could be made up to her. In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place. The whole calamity, with the falling form of Macey, was plainly descried from the ship. Oh, Colonel, help me to guard against so dreadful a calamity. In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence. Show More Sentences It was old Frank's staunchness that brought calamity upon him. The steps suggested to meet this impending calamity were strange enough. And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand? Long before sunrise the news of this calamity spread like wildfire through the different encampments. But for this calamity we might have lost mckean Buchanan from the stage. Cunningham, tapping the Sunday paper, in which the calamity in question had just been announced to him. I think their presence made the closing scene of this dreadful calamity doubly painful, and doubly touching. Has such a risible calamity ever occurred before in any age? He knew it by every shrinking fibre in his body, he knew it by the sudden dizzy whirling of his brain, at the mere thought of that calamity. We so rely upon the orderly operation of familiar natural laws that any seeming suspension of them is noted as a menace to our safety, a warning of unthinkable calamity. Once one of the leading cultural and social centers of Europe, Berlin in 1945 was an horrendous human calamity that was extensively photographically documented at the time. But, alas, vain regret would not erase the calamity that had befallen. Majority of deaths were reported from Shangla while the death toll is feared to rise even further in view of the massiveness of this natural calamity. The whole seemed little else but a series of calamity, reproducing itself in successive generations, with one general hue, and varying in little, save the outline. At five, that evening, the shock of the calamity had struck its blow. Calamity paced up and down the bridge, grim and taciturn as ever, his hands buried in the pockets of his monkey jacket. Shes due to grade as cornfed, my Calamity is, or Im a shorthorn! He ain't no ornery, bloomin' skipper, nor Calamity ain't his name. But thank the Lord for him because this version of Calamity Jane needed an injection of something stronger than sarsaparilla to stave off the boredom. And, let's not forget Calamity Jane, the cross-dressing, tough-talking, sharp-shooting heroine of many a dime novel and a completely berserk film starring Doris Day. Show More Sentences Though Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane were in together in the city of Deadwood for only a few weeks, their exploits have become the stuff of tall tales and folklore. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of calamity? Words that rhyme with calamity What is the plural of calamity? What is the adverb for calamity? What is the adjective for calamity? What is the noun for calamity? Translations for calamity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words calamitously calamitous calamities calamint calamine calami calamondin calamus calanthe calas calash calathea 8-letter Words Starting With c ca cal cala calam calami calamit