sad spectacle
Example Sentences
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“A sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people,” he wrote on Telegram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
