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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:

This is Eszterhas' tragedy and the dark side of his celebrity.
The paper points out some facts of the tragedy that are typical: an older building not required to have sprinkler systems and a lulling frequency of false fire alarms.
This sounds like racy stuff, but critics say the story has the "structure and implacable momentum of a stern moral fable" (Holden, the New York Times ) and is more interested in dissecting the slow tragedy of the couple's disintegrating marriage than in high jinks.
Faced with an actual tragedy, the least she could have done is realize how fortunate she was.
Nearly all British newspapers led their front pages Wednesday with the first big European holiday tragedy of the summer--the deaths of up to 20 people in Switzerland while engaging in the adventure sport of "canyoning."