calvary
Example Sentences
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Jessie Sheehan, on the other hand, skips the oats and calls in pecans, and a calvary of spices including ginger and nutmeg.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2022
It took penalties, in the end, to separate the teams, to determine which set of fans would remember this journey as a holiday and which a calvary.
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
But the calvary also isn’t coming — not yet, anyway.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022
His calvary - his enemies would say "deceit" - goes back to 2006.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2016
That is living—to go forward, laugh, and accept what comes—to have heart enough, gaiety enough, brains enough to seize the few rare dispensations that the niggardly gods fling across this calvary which we call life!
From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
