How to use tragic in a sentence

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• You don't seem to be any the worse after such a tragic experience.From the entry any
• He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.From the entry affect
• The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.From the entry piece together
• There have been several false steps made on the campaign trail, none tragic.From the entry false step
• I would never make mileage out of the recent tragic deaths in their family.From the entry make mileage out of
• Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.From the entry wrath
• Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.From the entry deskill
• Gregg's search for the truth brings him into direct contact with the “little people” with tragic results.2021, Justin Mullis, “Fear, Faries, and Fossils: The Legacy of Arthur Machen's "Little People" Stories”, in Antonio Sanna, editor, Arthur…. From the entry little person
• The chapter 'The Wanderer' fully reflects a tragic, manic depressive temperament in bathyorographical imagery.2010, Malcolm Pasley, Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought: A Collection of Essays, Routledge, (unpaginated). From the entry bathyorographical
• The characters, the subcharacters, the mature but tragic love story, all appealed to me.2007, R. Barton Palmer, Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen, page 65. From the entry subcharacter
• Wearing certain types of jewelry and throwing signs can lead to tragic misidentification as a gang member.2006, G. Larry Mays, Juvenile Justice, page 308. From the entry throw signs
• Investigation has shown that an Artificial Intelligence was involved in the tragic death of your President.2001 January 15, Walter Jon Williams, All Great Neptune's Ocean (Andromeda), season 1, episode 10. From the entry artificial intelligence
• Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm rather fond of darkfics, or angstfics, or tragic hero fics.1999 May 13, Meech the Brown Hornet [username], “Re: [Polls] Another Superfluous poll - Fanfics”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet). From the entry angstfic
• They think they are romantic, tragic figures, exiled as on Elba.1992/1993 Winter, Katherine Weissman, “The Divorce Gang”, in Ploughshares, volume 18, number 4, page 202. From the entry as
• Surrealism only represented the artist’s darker, more tragic aspect in its ”decay, aimlessness, discontinuity, unrelatedness, and unexplicableness.”1990, Siegfried Pflegerl, “Ad REINHARDT”, in Die vollendete Kunst (overall work in German), Vienna; Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, section…. From the entry unexplicableness
• The fall of the Chinese mainland marked a tragic page in the history of the Chinese people.1982 April 11, Chiang Ching-kuo, “Seven Years of Longing and Faith”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Chengtu
• A minute or two later Emory Roberts confirmed the tragic news.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10. From the entry Central Standard Time
• The tragic news from Czechoslovakia shocks the conscience of the world.1968, President Lyndon Johnson, 18:22 from the start, in The President: August 1968. MP899 (1280x720), via Lyndon Baines Johnson Library…. From the entry Czechoslovakia
• It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard.1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, page 1. From the entry burst
• A tragic memory of Edwardian times, when butter or even margarine was a luxury in the Navy.1946, Edwin Radford, Unusual Words and how They Came About, page 15. From the entry bare navy
• 'Lind Arden was a great genius, one of the greatest tragic actresses in the world.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 6, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 118. From the entry touch
• Rimsky invests them with a sort of Dostoevskyian tragic air that belies the author’s characterizations.1933, The Book Collector’s Packet, volume 2, page 12, column 2. From the entry Dostoevskyian
• Two pairs of eyes were regarding her—Rutherford's noncommittal and unrequiring, Michael's hungry, tragic, pleading.1930 August 9, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Bridal Party”, in Matthew J[oseph] Bruccoli, editor, The Short Stories of F. Scott…. From the entry unrequiring
• The whole question of accidents is a very tragic and deeply interesting one.1927, Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE journal, volume 19. From the entry airwise
• These plays, one and all, were either sentimental bushwah or tragic nonsense.1925, George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude, page 230. From the entry bushwah
• Lord, lord, Carrados, the tragic monotony of your elderly professional nonentity!1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry lord
• “Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital,” the office said in a statement.2025 August 25, Isabel Kershner, Aaron Boxerman, Ameera Harouda, quoting office of Benjamin Netanyahu, “Israeli Hospital Strike Kills 20…. From the entry mishap
• The tragic consequences of Bed Bath & Beyond's whiplashing fortunes have cast an even darker cloud over Cohen's reputation.2022 September 12, Ryan Cohen, “The Money Game: Jen Wieczner”, in New York, volume 55, number 19, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, pages 14-15. From the entry ape
• Miggins will be convinced that you're there to tell her that one of her family has died in some tragic accident.2022, Darren Moor, “Try Not to Frighten Mrs. Miggins Any More than You have Already”, in How to Survive Your Early Years as a Police…. From the entry Mrs Miggins
• Reporters had photo shot the tragic scene from many angles.2022, DV Anderson, Spider Web of Conspiracy. From the entry photo-shoot
• His consummate athleticism allows him to be the versatile artist he is: modern or dashing, playful or tragic.2021 March 10, Gia Kourlas, “Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year?”, in The New York Times. From the entry consummate
• And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, →ISBN. From the entry eliminationism
• Granted, there's no seatbelt, so it could have been a James Dean tragic scenario in the event of an autostrade collision.2015, Suze Clemitson, Ride the Revolution: The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling, →ISBN. From the entry autostrade
• I have the requisite authority to provide augmentive information to you concerning the history and tragic circumstance of the loss.2011, Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues: The Stainless Steel Rat. From the entry augmentive

Meaning of tragic

1. adjective Causing great sadness or suffering.
2. adjective Relating to tragedy in a literary work.
3. adjective Having been the victim of a tragedy.

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Questions about tragic in a sentence

How do you use tragic in a sentence?

Tragic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Her father's early death was tragic.”

What is a short sentence with tragic?

“That dress is tragic.”

What does tragic mean?

Tragic means causing great sadness or suffering.