Sentence examples for calamitous by from inspiring English sources
The phrase "calamitous by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is often used to describe something that is disastrous or causing great harm or distress. Example: The storm was calamitous by every measure, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation in its wake.
He ruled the church during a period made calamitous by the invasion of the Lombards and by famine, plague, and the flooding of the Tiber River.
That event, calamitous by homeowners' standards, was attributed to oceanfront groins that the corps erected in the 1960's and 70's.
That announcement was greeted as calamitous by analysts, including Nomura's Stuart Jeffrey, who wrote to clients about BlackBerry's sharply shrinking revenue: "This might just be the worst miss that we have seen in 17 years of covering tech stocks".
This explanation for Germany's calamitous defeat by the Soviet Union has been refuted by the majority of historians, who have accused Hitler of trying to deflect blame for his country's defeat from himself to his ally, Italy.
It seems that the attack on MH17 may have been a calamitous error by ill-trained operators mistaking the passenger jet for a military target.
Leverkusen dominated throughout but poor finishing let them down after Bate scored with their first move, capitalising on a calamitous error by Leverkusen's goalkeeper Bernd Leno.
Chelsea's pre-season tour to the Netherlands and Germany got off to an inauspicious start as a calamitous error by goalkeeper Ross Turnbull helped Martin Jol's Ajax to a comfortable 3-1 win in Amsterdam.
Jordi Gómez spared the blushes of Ali al-Habsi by completing a hat-trick in stoppage time, when it appeared that a calamitous error by the Omani goalkeeper would cost Wigan a precious home win.
Norwich's second-string centre-backs contained the England captain easily until a calamitous misjudgment by Sébastien Bassong gifted the striker the chance to set up the winning goal for Mata.
Mind you, the Bangladesh captain, Shakib Al Hasan, after that calamitous defeat by West Indies, has enough problems on his plate without worrying about whether it is Matt Prior, Ravi Bopara or Ian Bell who accompanies the England captain to the crease.
It has emerged that England's defeated coaches are now being investigated by the sport's governing body after allegations that two of them broke the rules by giving the French referee Romain Poite an ear-bashing during Saturday's calamitous hammering by the Wallabies.
