sad spectacle

Example Sentences

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Now many families are unsure whether they will spend the holiday gathered around a majestic tower of greenery or something more reminiscent of Charlie Brown’s sad spectacle.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2021

Now many families are unsure whether they will spend the holiday gathered around a majestic tower of greenery — or something more reminiscent of Charlie Brown’s sad spectacle.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021

For the concert industry, the disastrous failure of the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas was an outlier — a sad spectacle, but an isolated one.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017

But Kimbo failed to transition to fight MMA on television, making the trailing arc of his career into a sad spectacle.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2016

She was in the crowd that was witnessing the sad spectacle of the man who had been turned into a snake for having disobeyed his parents.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez