calamity
Example Sentences
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It’s a genuine calamity—there are deaths, as well as displacement of babies and the ill, including one nun recently diagnosed with tuberculosis but who had no choice but to continue caring for the kids.
Everywhere, it seems, Christmas keeps close company with calamity.
To underline the obvious once more: The college football media ecosystem is not built to handle human calamities like this.
Others tell stories about the race to avert calamity.
From Los Angeles Times
As we wrote at the time, the project is a calamity waiting to happen.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
