Sentence examples for host of calamities from inspiring English sources

The Occidental, a 211-foot, three-masted ship that first sailed in 1874, once carried grain to California, railroad tracks to Alaska and coal to Europe and survived a host of calamities on its journeys, including the murder of its captain in 1887 by a mutinous mate.

She is in some way as much a host of her calamity as of the flea between her thumbs.

Slightly confident Moderately confident Very confident I do not mean to dismiss the possibility of global catastrophe from asteroids or global warming or a host of other possible calamities — bioengineered viruses spreading out of control, Malthusian nightmares of overpopulation choking off life on the planet, etc.

People in the latter halves of their lives now find themselves financing college tuition for grandchildren, chipping in when children or grandchildren graduate with five and six figures in student loan debt, supplying down payments in a tightening mortgage market and bailing the younger generations out of a host of other financial calamities.

In fact, after experiencing his own financial troubles, a terminated career, and the failure of Florence in international affairs, and witnessing a host of different natural calamities and the onset of the Black Death in Europe, he became convinced that the apocalypse and final judgement was near.

"It's a catalogue of calamities".

The bridge became the site of calamities.

By coincidence, a series of calamities followed.

There are more shadows of calamities to come.

The findings study indicated that there are organizations that assisted the community during times of calamities.

Economies rebound and the populations recover despite the upheaval brought about by the havoc of calamities.