Sentence examples for one calamity from inspiring English sources

Heaping one calamity on top of another, Kaminsky piles up a whole stack of woe to try his hero's soul: a deadly duo robbing Korean convenience stores; a sleazy con artist extorting money from old people; a Mexican gangster calling in favors; and Lieberman's own brother falling apart and blaspheming God in a Torah class.

Years later, as a big-budget thriller ran into one calamity after another on his watch, he joked, "If only 'Jaws' was about a Chevy".

It's been one calamity after another.

One calamity at a time is more than enough.

We should never view all Britain's flooding problems through the prism of one calamity.

Maybe one calamity, no matter how frightening, is unlikely to fundamentally transform most people.

It's a warm film about paranoia, an amiable one about calamity, an optimistic one about catastrophe.

Another one, and calamity yawns.

One day, calamity strikes: he grows to a normal size.

And in a perverse miracle it yields one last calamity when it seems that things cannot possibly get worse.

One painful calamity is the blow that has been dealt French culture which was always highly regarded by the Egyptians.