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Example sentences for "tragically"

Lexicographically close words:
tragedy; tragen; traghetto; tragic; tragical; tragick; tragicke; tragico; tragicomedy; tragique
  1. What wretched little chances can produce the most tragically terrific upheavals!

  2. The last charge that was laid upon me was the one which has to- night so tragically ended.

  3. My name sounded too tragically inconsequential; my mission so childishly absurd!

  4. His head was in his hands, his beard hung tragically between his knees, and his back was bent in a dismal arch of resignation under the bludgeonings of Fate.

  5. It is not the necessary inadequacy of the finite mind to conceive of the Infinite that most tragically hides God from us.

  6. So, secondly, notice that a life which thus ignores God is tragically unaware of its own emptiness.

  7. In shreds it fell, a tangled, twisted, tragically wrecked piece of magnificence.

  8. Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, "Oh, do somebody go down quick!

  9. Jo, addressing the fire in her turn, and watching with delight the happy light it seemed to kindle in the eyes that had been so tragically gloomy when she saw them last.

  10. The first news of it came tragically on the young Princess.

  11. Very busy, in deep secrecy, corresponding with Lieutenant Katte at Berlin, consulting tragically with Captain Guy Dickens here.

  12. Goes off mournfully and tragically at back with a prolonged sigh.

  13. Tears herself away from him and tragically throws herself on sofa.

  14. At its best, the vacation without my friend was tragically incomplete, and only a few of its incidents stand out with clearness across the forty-six years that have passed since then.

  15. The number of funerals on Cape Cod was tragically large.

  16. It was not dead; the soul of it, in this parched-up body, was tragically asleep only.

  17. Though he becomes her husband by means of a cruel fraud, he never fully gains her trust, and the estrangement so tragically sealed in the last chapter of the novel comes almost as a relief to the sympathetic reader of her sad history.

  18. So we cannot say that seventy-five per cent, of it was wasted; but, in any case, the proportion of failure is tragically large.

  19. So tragically soon after the days when he has feasted his eyes and filled his memory with her beauty, she will, she must withdraw her body from him and for months to come he will be shut out entirely from all sight of her.

  20. Too tragically often she is baffled in her search.

  21. I saw him cover his face with his hands and sway back with a tragically helpless mutter of "I can't do it!

  22. Yet it was not fear; it was not cowardice, that I saw written on that tragically colorless brow.

  23. And Jessie pointed tragically to one side of the tub, where the blue candle lay at the bottom of the sea, and the pink one, though still floating above it, had burned out and tilted to one side in an attitude of profound dejection.

  24. And Polly rose and stalked tragically up and down the room, with her fingers buried in her curls.

  25. But, instead of saying that, he stood looking at me, with a tragically humble sort of contriteness.

  26. For I knew, now, that something was really and truly and tragically wrong, as plainly as though Dinky-Dunk had up and told me so by word of mouth.

  27. As I stared down at the roof of our shack it looked small and pitiful, tragically meager to house the tangled human destinies it was housing.

  28. In the last, a poet, who had been tragically wrangling with his wife, walked forth on the sea-beach on a tempestuous night and witnessed the horrors of a wreck.

  29. Mrs. Spaulding looked at her tragically and heaved a ponderous sigh.

  30. Her one consolation seemed to be a feelings--tragically feminine--that she had drawn down to her a figure that before had always seemed to shadow and chill her with its shadowy immaculacy.

  31. You've had the thing come too tragically to you to see it just right, so I'm going to step in and I want you to leave things to me.

  32. The face of that immigrant girl was too tragically eager.

  33. That a door so tragically shut should open to so simple a knock!

  34. The Committee in April published an elaborate report which portrayed the army of the Potomac as an army of heroes tragically afflicted in the past by the incompetence of their commanders.

  35. Close by stands St. Elizabeth, looking solemnly and tragically up to heaven.

  36. It hung there for him tragically vivid again, the hour she had first found him sequestered and accessible after making his acquaintance at his shop.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tragically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dreadfully; grievously; grimly; hideously; horribly; horridly; terribly