tragic

Example Sentences

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"This is devastating news for our Tudor family. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this very tragic time."

From BBC

“Othello,” which runs 134 minutes with two intermissions, feels weighed down by overwrought dramatic gestures enacting Shakespeare’s tragic narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal

Matti Friedman documents their mission in “Out of the Sky,” an account of the personal motivations and tragic fates of these heroic figures of undying Jewish faith.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nutt said there was a "tragic randomness" and unpredictability to meningitis outbreaks.

From BBC

I gazed at her, trying to align the tragic, lovesick woman I’d seen on the big screen with this girl, dewy-faced from the humid air of wash vats and irons, pawing through my family’s sheets.

From Literature