calamities
- plural of calamity.
Example Sentences
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Calamities like the ones we confront today can rattle family dynamics, prematurely turning the roles of the protector and the vulnerable upside down.
From Salon • May 22, 2021
Calamities and the mass destruction of populations and lives stretch back to biblical times and on through the days of plague in medieval Europe.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2020
Calamities strike when a family patriarch rents an enormous motor-home and takes his dysfunctional clan on vacation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020
Calamities such as Ecuador’s disallowed goal against Brazil and Raul Ruidiaz’s Hand Of God 2.0 come to mind, but it was the impulse to hand out yellows that did it for me.
From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2016
Smaug, the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities, was triumphant once more.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
