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:

And groups have lobbied for the issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 150 th anniversary of 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.
Morris casts himself, of course, as the man who brought Bill Clinton back from calamity and got him re-elected in 1996.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., famously put it--have we also reduced the threshold for commonly accepted calamity?
The paper complained in an editorial that "the corrosive tawdriness of political populism" was delaying relief efforts, with government and opposition politicians arguing about money and whether there should be a formal declaration of a national calamity.