calamities

Example Sentences

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Calamities have struck at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but people still tucked into turkey or opened presents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Calamities like the ones we confront today can rattle family dynamics, prematurely turning the roles of the protector and the vulnerable upside down.

From Salon • May 22, 2021

Calamities and the mass destruction of populations and lives stretch back to biblical times and on through the days of plague in medieval Europe.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2020

Calamities such as Ecuador’s disallowed goal against Brazil and Raul Ruidiaz’s Hand Of God 2.0 come to mind, but it was the impulse to hand out yellows that did it for me.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2016

How to Survive 101 Calamities was the name of the book, which covered what to do in any dire situation—falling elevators, train wrecks, theater fires exetera.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver