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:

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.
Club soda is the wonder cure for stains but perhaps most effectively at the time of the calamity.
The brawny Neeson "is a calamity" as Wilde, says New York's John Simon.
But this only works immediately after the calamity.
In the 1960s, a revisionist school of economic historians proved that limiting wheat exports would have made only a puny dent in the calamity.