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.
What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.
The Financial Times of London called the collapse of the WTO talks a "disaster" and a "calamity" for which the United States and the European Union were mostly to blame.
Yet the calamity at the World Trade Center that same morning included catastrophic damage 1,000 feet above the ground that instantly imperiled tens of thousands of people.
And groups have lobbied for the issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 150 th anniversary of the calamity.