Get to know Tragedy better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like disaster or drama.
Tragedy in a sentence
Tragedy meaning
- A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
- The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
- A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
Using Tragedy
- The main meaning on this page is: A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character. | The genre of such works, and the art of producing them. | A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- Useful related words include: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, cataclysm.
- In the example corpus, tragedy often appears in combinations such as: the tragedy, tragedy and, tragedy that.
Example sentences (20)
It is so easy to become disillusioned by the negative press and highlighting of innocent tragedy upon tragedy.
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Segui is being held by Hamas, called the accidental hostage killings a "tragedy on tragedy," and and echoed calls for a speedy and diplomatic resolution.
Many of us recall where we were at when we learned of this tragedy and the subsequent television coverage that brought this tragedy into our homes.
With humor, tragedy, and grotesque theatricality, “The Death of Meyerhold” is a play by Mark Jackson that depicts the contradictory life, art, and era of famed Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold with humor, tragedy, and grotesque theatricality.
The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
Telling the story of tragedy and forgiveness, the film was released by Fathom Events in June for one night on 800 screens to commemorate the four year anniversary of the tragedy and the day of forgiveness.
Mrs Darnley, 78, said in the early stages following the tragedy she had been told it would not take as long as an inquiry into a Super Puma crash in the North Sea which killed 16 men, which was held in 2014 – five years after the tragedy happened.
So that was obviously very challenging and then I think I mentioned as well, on a personal level, just to not get lost in the idea that this was just a tragedy, an unfolding tragedy alone.
This walk out is in protest of Congress doing nothing more than tweeting “thoughts and prayers” tragedy after tragedy when students are shot and killed while in classrooms.
Toronto Mayor John Tory Monday morning called it "a tragedy -- another tragedy in our city this year," where shootings have been on the rise for its 2.9 million residents.
Albert Heinrichs, 'Nietzsche in Greek Tragedy and the Tragic', in A companion to Greek Tragedy, Justina Gregory (ed.
Aristotle, Poetics IV While it is believed that Aristotle's Poetics comprised two books – one on comedy and one on tragedy – only the portion that focuses on tragedy has survived.
Aristotle, Poetics VI The characters in a tragedy are merely a means of driving the story; and the plot, not the characters, is the chief focus of tragedy.
Christopher Pelling, "Tragedy, Rhetoric and Performance Culture", in A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Justina Gregory (ed.
Friedrich Nietzsche discussed the origins of Greek tragedy in his early book The Birth of Tragedy (1872).
Having abandoned the idea that tragedy is the superior genre, Gautier was willing to accept comedy as the equal of tragedy.
Justina Gregory, 'Euripidean Tragedy', in A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Justina Gregory (ed.
Justina Gregory, "Euripidean Tragedy", in A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Justina Gregory (ed.
Nature of Greek tragedy Greek tragedy, from which Racine borrowed so plentifully, tended to assume that humanity was under the control of gods indifferent to its sufferings and aspirations.
They are derived almost entirely from three unreliable sources: Justina Gregory, 'Euripidean Tragedy', in A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Justina Gregory (ed.
Common combinations with tragedy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tragedy 54×
- tragedy and 19×
- tragedy that 14×
- tragedy in 12×
- greek tragedy 12×
- tragedy of 10×
- this tragedy 9×
- is tragedy 9×
- tragedy for 7×
- of tragedy 6×