calamity
Example Sentences
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They materialize in the kitchen year after year, radiating earnest goodwill, and yet somehow leave a trail of small calamities in their wake.
From Salon
Microplastics are the current bete noire and rightly so, but we’re still in the dark about the causal calamity of a past era’s chemical polluting.
From Los Angeles Times
And not far from the park, an army of trees is being grown as a sort of insurance policy for such calamities.
From Los Angeles Times
Dramatically, however, “Sirāt” is at once haphazard and pompous, stalling on its central mystery and throwing in a few flashes of distracting calamity.
Her offense was unforgivable: she had saved him from a calamity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
