Sentence examples for unfortunate calamity from inspiring English sources
Yet it all feels like one unfortunate calamity away, its proximity unnervingly near, made real by the daily struggles of younger family members who are trying to recover from childhoods in care, who have few or no qualifications and work on zero-hour contracts.
In the late 19th century, because of growing economic impoverishment, a series of unfortunate natural calamities, and unbridled foreign aggression in the area, the Boxers began to increase their strength in the provinces of North China.
Now came the calamity defending that would find an unfortunate repeat later in the half when Lorik Cana was sent off by the referee, Carlos Velasco Carballo.
The flag may also be flown at half-mast when the Central People's Government advises the Chief Executive to do so, or when the Chief Executive considers it appropriate to do so, on occurrences of unfortunate events causing especially serious casualties, or when serious natural calamities have caused heavy casualties.
I probably saw her about a half-dozen times in high school, usually a day or two before some calamity befell the family — my father's diagnosis of cancer; a sibling's unfortunate wedding.
One calamity overtakes another, and the 240,000 "stranded Pakistanis of Bangladesh" know they are the leftover unfortunates of distant yesterdays.
Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent — a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident — and that by some unfortunate mishap he alone had not been warned, B returned home and switched on his transistor radio.
Calamity and banality blur.
