Calamity in a sentence as a noun

I think the long term effects of all this calamity are something they very much care about.

On the largest scale, it means making sure that humanity itself can survive any calamity.

To look at the Shuttle record and see the history of calamity it's easy to think that we just had bad luck, but quite the opposite was the case.

I've seen a couple of other highway features which, if taken too fast by an unfamiliar driver, could easily lead to calamity.

He described the famine as "The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated.

Believing that is true, which I don't, we're left with an even worse calamity: mid-level managers who will effectively have the power of kings while making 100K per year.

If nobody was arguing, they'd get kind of tense and nervous as if some calamity was about to happen, and then starting a debate seemed to relieve everyone's tension.

Then, the only way to avoid calamity would be to use total surveillance to feed AIs that figure out who will become a terrorist before the terrorists themselves realize it.

What was bad about this situation is a prosecution that had taken such a hard line that a 6-7 year prison sentence --- a life-changing calamity --- would have seemed like a real possibility.

More regulation would not help you avoid financial calamities - first, because the guys who would regulate it would have absolutely no idea where the calamity would come from, because they are not prophets.

[2][1] If technological gains stopped delivering improved quality of life, we'd be facing a civilization-level calamity that would render concerns about productivity gains less than irrelevant.

Using "unbreakable" for "the disclosure of information that could only have been obtained by breaking it, thereby disclosing our capability of breaking it, would be a calamity for national security, diplomacy, and the economy".

Calamity definitions

noun

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

See also: catastrophe disaster tragedy cataclysm