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Example sentences for: calamities

How can you use “calamities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

will probably experience a series of terrible events--wrenching calamities that are economic or social or environmental in nature" seems well within the realm of plausibility.
The forces of nature are supposed to avoid any multibillion-dollar calamities such as the recent Grand Forks, N.D., flood.
In body and soul it has been difficult for celebrities in Tabloidland this month, with a surfeit of romantic calamities, plastic surgery disasters, and urological deaths and rebirths.
The battle of the calamities is really kind of funny--and if you're onto it, so must everyone else be.
Or, for that matter, what of cartoons themselves, which are filled with calamities without consequences?