Synonyms for calamities
calami·ties

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1. List of paraphrases for "calamities":

   disasters, catastrophes, scourges

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How to use calamities in a sentence?

1. Jeremy Taylor:

   Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

2. Ambrose Bierce:

   Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

3. Prime Minister Antonio Costa:

   We understand the dimension of this horrible tragedy that devastated various municipalities here in Madeira, and we also know about the calamities affecting other zones of the country that now have to be addressed.

4. Glenn Nelson:

   We're blocking BIPOC communities from being involved in the conservation movement and BIPOC communities are the ones who experience the impact of environmental calamities first, and disproportionately, we're essentially excluding them from their own rescue in a way.

5. Mike Pompeo:

   I ’m really worried. I ’m worried about a cascading set of calamities around the world.