Example sentences for: tragically

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

  • As Chatterbox wrote recently in the New Republic (tragically, the article isn't online), Chatterbox believes the sensible reportorial response to Bush's selective silence should be: 1) Yes, Bush probably used cocaine sometime in his life; and 2) who cares?

  • Homer's father (Chris Cooper) is shown bullying the boy into abandoning his education and going into the mines, a perspective less tragically shortsighted than plain moronic, given the fact that miners are dying all around him either from cancer or cave-ins.

  • While Franklin Roosevelt was "tragically unwary of the new global menace from the left," Churchill spearheaded the opposition to the "twin scourges" of the century--Nazism and communism.

  • For example, we don't view anencephalics, babies tragically born with only a brain stem and not the rest of the brain, as living humans.

  • Perhaps imperial powers have always behaved like that, but it's not pleasant and it's not dignified for those who have to bear the consequences--in this case tragically."


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