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How to use tragically in a sentence

13 example sentences · adverb

Tragically means in a tragic manner. Example: “Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.”

Examples of tragically by meaning

adverbIn a tragic manner.

  • "He is very kind and promises—but nothing comes of it, and the days go on, the days go on," she repeated tragically.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...
  • Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates.2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The...
  • Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60

More sentences with tragically

  • Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.From the entry stifle
  • Tragically, her disease is so rare that the only effective medicine is an orphan drug.From the entry orphan drug
  • The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.From the entry bomb
  • Tragically, no one challenged him about it.2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, page 58. From the entry challenge
  • The Malibu Express was built by his dad for his mom, who tragically passed away the previous year, apparently.2020 December 19, Brian Schmid (@SchmanthonyP), Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023. From the entry equanimitable
  • They misformulate their own existential insights in ways that either deprive their theories of political relevance or lead to tragically mistaken political commitments.2014, Kerry H. Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics, page 37. From the entry misformulate
  • The tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and in particular its leader, Kim Jong Il, are well known.2006 October 22, Tom Zeller Jr., “In North Korea, the Internet is only for a few - Technology & Media - International Herald Tribune”, in…. From the entry absurdist
  • Ronald Reagan went on TV hours after the space shuttle Challenger tragically Roman-candled over Florida and said, "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave."2014, Christopher Buckley, But Enough About You: Essays, page 428. From the entry roman-candle
  • If you take ten bananas because the bananas are free, you'll likely end up with eight rotten bananas covered in flies while another person is left tragically bananaless.2010, Jaime Morrison Curtis, Prudent Advice: Lessons for My Baby Daughter, page 80. From the entry bananaless
  • Tragically, as cultures were conquered by new religions and their old wisdom-keepers persecuted, most of this oral soundlore was lost—forcibly forgotten, or buried beneath the new priesthood's patter and Babel.2008, Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen, The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems. From the entry soundlore

Meaning of tragically

  1. adverb In a tragic manner.

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Questions about tragically in a sentence

How do you use tragically in a sentence?
Tragically is used as an adverb. For example: “Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.”
What is a short sentence with tragically?
“Tragically, no one challenged him about it.”
What does tragically mean?
Tragically means in a tragic manner.

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