How to Use tragedy in a Sentence

tragedy

noun

• Her son's death was a terrible tragedy.
• The situation ended in tragedy when the gunman shot and killed two students.
• The students are studying Greek tragedy.
• The biggest tragedy here is that the accident could have easily been prevented.
• This was the first full season of business for Knaus in the wake of tragedy.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
• Her death was the greatest tragedy of his life, Bird said.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Celtics felt the impact of losing Lewis on and off the court for decades, and the tragedy still brings tears to our eyes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• Mike is no stranger to tragedies in the line of duty, either.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• This isn’t good enough for a lot of the townsfolk, who are still angry over the tragedy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• The jury found me in part at fault for this god-awful tragedy.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
• To fail to act, and watch this number increase, would be more than a tragedy.
  — Peter Sands, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But tragedy struck when he was asked to compare himself to Cher.
  — Vulture, 16 Aug. 2023
• Moskowitz, the local congressman, said the mass tragedy has led to some change but more needs to be done.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
• His influence is one of the reasons this record ends in tragedy.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
• Groff makes clear that Frank’s is a tragedy of weakness, not simply of greed.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2023
• First, a few words honoring the victims of the Lewiston tragedy.
  — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• So this is just one of those huge tragedies that hit our family.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• But Wednesday’s episode again ended in tragedy, as Noah was the body inside the barrel.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• Travis Scott is hitting the road with his first official tour since the tragedy of Astroworld in 2021.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2023
• The story is sad, but ultimately not a tragedy, which would have felt very much like a waste of time.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• He’s rejuvenated in Jim Schwartz defense and has had a year to cope with the tragedy.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• In their first game after the Skaggs tragedy, the Angels took the field wearing jerseys with his name and No. 45 on the back.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• As the season was starting to roll, personal tragedy struck.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2023
• Some view the tragedy as a potential turning point in the Israel-Gaza war, which has dragged on for almost half a year.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• If a tragedy is named after a woman, she’s not supposed to make it to the final curtain, let alone live to have gray hair.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• The town was in shock and the flood of reporters coming in was only going to make learning who the victims of the tragedy were more difficult.
  — Ismael Estrada, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• In the three days since the flood, owners whose dogs were killed have blasted the city and the day care’s owner, asserting that more should have been done to prevent the tragedy.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Fire recovery could be a chance to right those wrongs—or risk further entrenching the same systems that led to the tragedy.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2023
• Three days of mourning have been declared nationwide and the death toll is expected to rise as the full scale of the tragedy comes into view.
  — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• Last Thursday, at least 118 people were killed while trying to access food aid in Gaza City in one of the worst single tragedies of the war so far.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024