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
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
“We’re living a calvary here; we are suffering,” said Louisor Zepenge, a student.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2014
In this action 600 English horsemen, under the earl of Cardigan, charged a Russian force of 5,000 calvary and six batallions of infantry.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
