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.

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

  • The forces of nature are supposed to avoid any multibillion-dollar calamities such as the recent Grand Forks, N.D., flood.

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

  • But, it's worth remembering when the next set of calamities hits your television screen--or, far worse, your own community--that when we decide to "nationalize" our problems, the overhead tends to get very high, very fast.


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