tragic
Example Sentences
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"Our hearts go out to the families, friends, and communities affected by the tragic loss of these two mariners," said Rear Adm.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
They also get into Black’s tragic origin story, messy personal scandals, and strange friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
Using their invisible arms, they ushered the girl to shelves lined with art, history and photography books, teaching Rosales how to appreciate the eerie, the tragic, the mysterious, the romantic, the ephemeral and the hard-to-find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The restaurant, with higher gross revenue than any other in America during its final year of operation, remains engraved in tragic legend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I have taken the story of Philoctetes and the death of Ajax from two plays of the fifth-century tragic poet Sophocles.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing tragic
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The Tale of Despereaux
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The Wednesday Wars
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