tragic

Example Sentences

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The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor—forever cursed by a reputation as a great but underrated writer—frames Mrs. Palfrey’s struggle to endure the humiliations of old age as both tragic and comic.

From The Wall Street Journal

All of this only makes Reiner’s death all the more tragic.

From Salon

"The tragic loss of such a young girl has caused a huge amount of shock and upset, with there being a profound sense of loss felt throughout the community," she added.

From BBC

Crisis actor is a derogatory label used by conspiracy theorists to allege that someone is deceiving the public -- feigning injuries or death -- while posing as a victim of a tragic event.

From Barron's

In the words of prosecutor Paul Greaney KC: "Those efforts to rehabilitate himself after a difficult early adulthood only serve to make more shocking, and tragic, what he did in Liverpool that day this May."

From BBC