Sample Sentences for
calamity
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    The vicar might as well know right now that as for himself, he was an atheist; he considered Christianity a calamity.  (source)
    calamity = a disastrous event
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    She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.  (source)
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    Name any terms, reverend sir, even to the halving of my kingdom; but banish this calamity, spare the sun!  (source)
    calamity = disastrous event
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    Earlier, there had been a minor calamity.†  (source)
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    She seems to think that all the calamities of the Pyncheons began from that quarrel with the wizard,  (source)
    calamities = disastrous events
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    Because of a calamitous car crash.†  (source)
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    Let any parties to this oath who first calamitously break it have their brains decanted like these wine-drops on the ground— they ancl their children; let their wives be slaves.†  (source)
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    Some will collapse, others will betray, and others will try to ignore the calamity.†  (source)
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    But I cannot find my voice to do anything about these future calamities, because it is someone's idea of inspirational to release the bobbing weapons.†  (source)
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    In these evil days, with a calamitous War looming ever nearer in the distance, a Mother's chief hope is that her dearest ones, of which I have only you remaining, should be safe and sound.†  (source)
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    Etienne sees it as a calamity, but Madame Ruelle radiates glee.†  (source)
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    It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies—inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities—made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me; but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.†  (source)
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    gross indulgence can be calamitous, however;†  (source)
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