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Example sentences for: tragic

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The conclusion to be drawn from my nine years of reporting on the AIDS epidemic for the New York Native is a somber one: Patients, activists, and uncritical journalists have been led down a tragic primrose path.
The hardships the pioneers suffered in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley, and the Mojave Desert became the stuff of California legend, the most tragic being the fate of 87 pioneers who set out from Illinois in 1846.
When the creation is such a gradual process, it can reflect and almost chronicle the happy and tragic events that take place in the family.
If his policy would have been the salvation of the American worker, the story of its defeat is a tragic drama.
McCullough writes that "by the standards of latter-day preservation," the dumping of the White House interior represents "a needless and tragic loss."