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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:

1. Who caused the tragedy?
The family says that Abraham Zapruder, after witnessing tragedy through his lens, "never looked through a camera again."
Story so pathetic it almost made us laugh: The Globe 's insistence that Kennedy could have "averted tragedy" had he heeded his July 16 horoscope, which warned Sagittarians to "remain close to home."
On top of the the pain and suffering Moesha (er, Brandy) must be going through herself on a personal level (I once saw a Lifetime original movie about coping with dehydration, and believe me, it was more than a docudrama, it was the powerful story of one woman's courage in the face of acute moisture-shortage), there is also the larger tragedy of a whole consumer populace having to go without new episodes of Moesha every week until, somehow, a cure can be found.
There's very little more until a Susan Smith-type tragedy in 1991, when a soccer mom in California got so stressed out that she shot her two daughters and then tried, unsuccessfully, to kill herself.