Words similar to calamity

Example sentences for: calamity

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

It promises luck to those who forward it and calamity to those who don't.
He's also fascinated by the infectious nature of calamity: The success with which he simultaneously analyzes and communicates its uneasy intimacy is his genius.
And groups have lobbied for the issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 150 th anniversary of the calamity.
A mailman stops me in the street--I'm not making this up--to expound his own deduction from Philip Roth's tale of family calamity, to wit, that without a clear sense of God, modern Americans are doomed to lose their bearings and society will go to hell.
The calamity spurred the government to launch an emergency program of public-housing construction; spartan new blocks of apartments put cheap and fireproof roofs over hundreds of thousands of heads.