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Example sentences for: tragedies

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How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which "normal" middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.
I have adjusted well to these tragedies.
I hope people who have kids in high school will realize this and will not think that that is enough to end tragedies like that at Columbine.
Over a millennium, Poland evolved from a huge and imposing, economically powerful kingdom to a partitioned nation that ceased to exist on world maps for over 120 years, and finally to a people and land at the center of the 20th century’s greatest wars and most horrific human tragedies.
The world press ran out of new things to say about Kennedy tragedies many years ago, and all the old clichés were revived Monday in the massive coverage of the tragic loss of John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash Friday--the "curse" on the family, its love of adventure, the "end of a dynasty," etc.