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:

In the 1960s, a revisionist school of economic historians proved that limiting wheat exports would have made only a puny dent in the calamity.
1153(a)(7)), as in effect on March 31, 1980, because of persecution or fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political calamity.
What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.
The brawny Neeson "is a calamity" as Wilde, says New York's John Simon.
It promises luck to those who forward it and calamity to those who don't.