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Example sentences for: tragedy

How can you use “tragedy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Even before the exhibits were introduced, people flocked to see the empty, zinc-faced building, its sharp angles representing the jagged course of German Jewish history, in particular the tragedy of the Holocaust.
"The tragedy is that they destroyed the good ones and left this trash behind."
While expressing his "deepest regret" about the tragedy, Qaddafi said he was "even more sad" that the United States has been unable to locate his plane.
On the Kennedy front, the Times of London's New York columnist, Joanna Coles, wrote Wednesday that Americans are surprisingly dry-eyed about the tragedy.
When the elderly kill themselves, we gloss over that fact: It isn't really a tragedy, not like a teen-ager's suicide, or a young mother's.