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 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

Organizing Our List Way back at the start of the 21st century, the Lifeboat Foundation assigned doom scenarios to four general categories: Calamities – Humanity and intelligence go extinct from Earth.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2012

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