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.

  • USA Today leads with the various natural calamities plaguing the country right now: wildfires in Florida, thunderstorms in Maryland, and floods in New England.

  • Or, for that matter, what of cartoons themselves, which are filled with calamities without consequences?

  • The screenwriter, Curtis, began his career with the hilariously acrid BBC sitcom Black Adder before writing The Tall Guy (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral --a movie that irked me, possibly because Grant passed up the alluringly neurotic Kristin Scott Thomas for the vapidly bovine Andie MacDowell, possibly because its dizzy romantic badinage was interrupted for easy pathos involving a fatal heart attack and other real-world calamities.

  • The battle of the calamities is really kind of funny--and if you're onto it, so must everyone else be.


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