How to Use tragic in a Sentence

tragic

adjective

• They both died in a tragic car accident.
• Their deaths were tragic and untimely.
• Romeo and Juliet's tragic love affair.
• We saw a tragic play about a man with AIDS.
• His life had been a series of tragic events since then.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Driver fought back tears at the tragic conclusion of the film.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• Gorbachev seems to come out of your gallery of tragic figures.
  — Roberto Brunelli, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
• The series ramps up for the epic finale of the popular series through the use of the tragic end of the People’s Princess’ life.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• But there will be more action taken to respond to the death of the – the tragic death of the three brave U.S. service members.
  — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• The film chronicles the rise of the Von Erich wrestling dynasty in the 1980s, and also covers the tragic deaths of many of the Von Erich brothers.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• Before the tragic dive, RMST planned to take images inside and outside of the wreck.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The child’s parents had been putting their 9-month-old baby in his car seat when the tragic events occurred.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
• His life took a tragic turn, his brother said in an email, when his girlfriend was struck and killed by a bus.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Of the many premature deaths from the wave of great ‘60s musicians, Gram Parsons is one of the most tragic.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• Their friendship comes to a tragic ending, like the film itself, and many other films of this era.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• Bob and the Dwarf lack essential — and in the Dwarf’s case, tragic — awareness of the world around them, but each opera has a woman who is quite aware.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The contrast of lively music and the film’s tragic themes is a fitting take for the tale of one of Apollo’s mortal sons.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• A number of recent stories chart the tangled, tragic global fault lines of the war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Iron Claw, a new biopic about the tragic Von Erich brothers, is rich with feeling and never despairing.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2023
• And the result was tragic — a young boy and a woman were trapped under the vessel and drowned after the vessel capsized.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• That was the rare tragic episode of deep-ocean adventures, one years in the making due to the company’s failure to test and heed warnings.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• But the climate crisis is just one tragic setback in the humpback’s comeback.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• After the tragic death of George Floyd, Black American singers were thrust into the limelight.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• And yet there is this vexing and tragic problem of homelessness.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
• For the members of its medieval audience, the tragic story invoked the passion of Christ.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• But people's faces often show the signs of sleepless nights under attack, fatigue from the churn of tragic news and, above all, grief.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Jae C. Hong The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2023
• Here’s why there was little accord on what caused a tragic blast at one hospital in Gaza.
  — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
• Her tragic death triggered bloody nationwide protests which swept over the country for months.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• Since then, the hat Napoleon was known to both throw to the floor in fits of anger and carry valiantly into battle has become the embodiment of the tragic hero.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• His death in prison on Friday brings a tragic end to a struggle the Kremlin had already largely contained.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024