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Example sentences for: tragedies

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Corriere della Sera of Milan reported a row at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, where the authorities have imposed a ban on under-16s attending an "erotic" edited version of Shakespeare's tragedies.
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.
Russert's guest, columnist Mike Barnicle, heaped praise and sympathy on Ted Kennedy for having "borne so many" family tragedies.
But those are her tragedies, not our business (or Wall Street's).
The death of Joseph Kennedy Jr. in World War II and the assassinations of Jack and Robert were tragedies.