Words similar to tragedy

Example sentences for: tragedy

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

As Mel Brooks observed, if you break your back, that's comedy; if I break a nail, that's tragedy; if Henry Kissinger breaks his back, that's justice.
Is he mad--to be so passive and smiley in our world of tragedy and foreboding?
6."What's happening in [WHEREVER] is a tragedy and an outrage, Wolf.
In his grief, each man blamed the other for the tragedy.
Where once I saw a man struggling rather nobly with tragedy, I now see someone trapped on the merry-go-round of notoriety.