Sentence examples for turned calamitous from inspiring English sources

Yesterday, an online forum set up by the authority to answer questions turned calamitous when hundreds of inquiring straphangers fell victim to technical glitches.

The school misfit — Marybeth is her name, but because of a learning disability, her cruel nickname is "Slowgirl" — had been there, and after ingesting a few too many Jell-O shots, she became the object of a prank that was meant to be innocuous but turned calamitous.

But a rocky June turned into a calamitous July, and by the end of the month, Sowood was on the brink of collapse.

This turned out to be calamitous, as the 13 years since the bursting of Japan's bubble economy have shown.

Nobody can deny that, whatever the original intentions of Zionism's leaders, their project turned out to have calamitous consequences for the Arabs of Palestine.

That's if what we were to take with us as our primary comfort in calamitous conditions turned out to be The Simpsons--good as it is, and truly amusing--and its popular television ilk and nothing the least bit higher brow.

Hitting the Groove Phil Hogan Abacus £6.99, pp261 Thirtysomething, about to turn 40, seeks calamitous chain of events to precipitate collapse of marriage.

André Villas-Boas has been accused by Sam Allardyce of showing "immaturity" in his reaction to coverage of his difficulties at Tottenham Hotspur but the Spurs defender Kyle Walker believes that the club have turned a corner after their calamitous defeat at Manchester City.

The battle to reverse the calamitous turn that the American diet has taken is long and uphill.

SADDAM HUSSEIN is a man known to take chances that turn out calamitous for his country.

As long as governments, corporations, and consumers prefer carbon as an energy source, the war on climate change will be lost and the outcome of that will, in turn, be calamitous.