Sentence examples for a calamity with from inspiring English sources

"I'm a calamity with laundry," said Ms. Van Dina, emptying the dryer at the Bridge Laundromat on a recent weeknight.

Her wild lifestyle doesn't damage her career: a calamity with an intern results in high-profile employment with another prestige magazine.

Another historian argues that the gliders landing in daylight was a calamity, with the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment having two-thirds of their gliders hit by ground fire and suffering heavy casualties as they landed.

"At last," Mr. Banville writes, Petra has found "a calamity commensurate with her calamitous state of mind".

David's overriding doctrine of returning the team to their Mexican roots was a calamity littered with lawsuits and a series of bizarre personnel moves.

PAGE 10 The Strike, in Context The 60-hour transit strike of 2005, which was a privation for some in the New York region and an inconvenience for millions, may not be seen as much of a calamity compared with the city's recent traumas.

That also helps explain why a runaway oil well on the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico is a massive calamity, with crews struggling to stop the gushing crude.

You can prevent it from becoming a shelf-building calamity with a level and an electronic stud finder.

The Guardian's diplomatic editor Julian Borger has a preview of Obama's prepared remarks, and this is what he is expected to say on Syria: The crisis is no longer limited to Syria; it is a regional calamity with global ramifications.

The case for a mild downturn assumes that Europe's policymakers, however haltingly, are on course to solve their debt crisis; that the European Central Bank (ECB) has reduced the risk of a debt calamity with its recent provision of three-year liquidity to banks; and that the impact of fiscal austerity on growth will be brief and modest.Those hopes may be misplaced.

Today, obvious mistakes have led to a financial calamity with very devastating effects, and even greater aftershocks are likely coming.