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
A calvary officer of large fortune, who had distinguished himself in several actions, having been quartered for a long time in a foreign city, gradually fell into a life of extreme and incessant dissipation.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
