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Example sentences for tragic
If it wasn't so irritatingly tragic it would be kind of cute.
These deaths are truly tragic in that they are so avoidable.
Forget all the events that happened that tragic day, those are secondary.
At age five, she developed the ability to make herself weep while performing tragic poetry.
She also features the faces of bears that make for folklore and occasional tragic realities.
There is, of course, a tragic and volatile subtext to this farce.
There's a kind of tragic irony in that juxtaposition of facts.
It's kind of tragic to see an obviously decent guy transformed right before your eyes.
Most tragic of course is the heavy loss of human life and devastation of livelihoods in the affected regions.
The university also played a high-profile and tragic role in the civil-rights movement.
Remainder ends instead in comic declension, deliberately refusing the self-mythologizing grandeur of the tragic.
The demonic influence exerted over another human is tragic.
But this tragic story may yet have a positive outcome.
These tragic news events remind all of us about the relativity and uncertainty of our safety.
To space enthusiasts yearning to break free from our terrestrial chains, this situation borders on the tragic.
It was the accident that has ended up saving more lives by far than it took, tragic as it was.
Hopefully such a tragic and rare event will never occur on my campus.
Hopefully, improved safety measures will mean less chance of tragic accidents.
Look at previous messages for link for explanation of what was going on there, before the situation escalated with tragic results.
But in operational terms, the consequences were tragic.
He turned to top secret military research and led a tragic private life.
It is tragic that this type of situation still happens in workplaces.
To somehow claim that as expertise would be laughable if it weren't so tragic that a science magazine is doing it.
The only reason why it was a tragic mistake was that the government jumped the gun in that case.
But it is tragic not because insufficient time or resources have been brought to bear on the problem.
Tragic events sometimes bring out the best in people.
All this suggests that the outbreak of violence may be a tragic blip.
In my view it is a tragic aspect of the human condition that will someday be resolved.
The consequences of bad ground intelligence can be tragic.
It now seems sad and even tragic, the reach for automation by these working pilots, their button-pushing response.
The accusation would sound comical if it weren't tragic.
The article would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.
On the one hand, it is tragic that students died of a heroin overdose.
She stopped cutting long enough to lift her arm to her eyes in a tragic pose.
It was the culmination of a tragic personal journey.
It was not less tragic because it was so sordid, because that it had to do with wages and grocery bills and rents.
His lasting postcolonial imprint reveals a far more nefarious interest and tragic outcome.
We live in a tragic and terribly dangerous world that is indifferent to individual suffering.
Whether their motives are missionary or mercenary, all are ultimately sucked into the vortex of an epic-and tragic-struggle.
These are the universal and tragic themes you find in the literatures of all peoples.
And remind us all how they are also destroying their environment in a tragic way.
The warnings were clear, yet the outcome was tragic.
The tragic result of this simple prank has made us so emotional and our irrational thinking is driven by anger.
The bullfrog tried to cross the road, with tragic messy results.
With the help of a local policewoman, they uncover tragic truths about him, their family and themselves.
Throwing the poor out of their homes because they can't pay their mortgages is not only tragic-it is pointless.
He's the first of three famous brothers to suffer a tragic end.
Two outbreaks of violence could be deemed tragic but coincidental.
We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
It is not a subtle finding it is dramatic and tragic.
Financial market participants created a financial bubble of tragic proportions in pursuit of personal gain.
In a dramatic turn of events, a tragic explosion strikes the soldiers and film crew.
Change that was tragic only to the degree that it was incomplete.
Its effects have been profound and tragic for centuries.
Humankind is a tragedy with an immensely tragic ending.
Plane crashes are spectacular, tragic events that can result in hundreds of deaths.
We are reacting, individually and collectively, to yet another tragic act of campus violence.
The loss of these invertebrates themselves would be tragic.
Poe's life was tragic, but he was about as unworldly as a bale of cotton.
It is universally regarded as an untimely and tragic event.
In a tragic place scented by tropical blooms, it was the simplest of gestures.
And what's amusing when it happens to a luggage container is tragic when it involves human life.
The tragic heroes keep making new mistakes that compound their original mistakes.
It turns out that he doesn't lack self-awareness, and it's nearly tragic that he's unable to act on it.
Democracy and supremacy undermine the tragic sense required for long-range planning.
However, examples of dog attacks with tragic results continue to occur.
As tragic as this food scenario is, however, it's precisely the way many of us drink wine.
Neither patient showed any sign of cancer, which can be a tragic consequence of virus-delivered gene therapy.
To his mind his new sense of maturity set him apart, made of him a half-tragic figure.
If you didn't watch the season in question, you missed something tragic and beautiful.
Her self-destruction was too predictable to be tragic, and her career too short.
It is truly tragic that the way our educational system is structured can actually inhibit student learning.
It is somewhat tragic that she and the attorneys advising her seem unable or unwilling to recognize this distinction.
The crash might once have been written off as a tragic accident.
First, it failed to offer any sort of line out of this tragic rut for these sad moms and dads.
The following tips are useful reminders on how to prevent a tragic collision from occurring.
Not demonic possession, but a tragic molting accident.
Colleges have their share of tragic stories, but this is one of the more unusual ones.
The current situation re credibility of scientific information of all kinds is tragic.
It was our finest moment, and it's tragic that some want to insist that it couldn't have happened.
But that supreme moment is tragic rather than harmonious.
As resources are not unlimited, it leads to tragic overpopulation, conflict and famine.
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