Example sentences for: tragicomic

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

  • 6. Boys Don't Cry . Starkly beautiful, Kimberly Peirce's debut film has at its core a tragicomic irony: That the cross-dressing Brandon Teena, a k a Teena Brandon (the rapturous Hillary Swank) feels most at home among the sort of roughnecks who would kill her if they knew her true gender.

  • It's tragicomic.

  • It's a testament to the hilarity of Analyze This that it's going to survive comparisons to The Sopranos, the rich and exuberantly tragicomic HBO series.

  • Even if the picture had a private meaning for its patron (who had just lost his male lover), it's obvious that Tiepolo enjoyed toying with the tragicomic possibilities of a fatal tennis match.


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