Sentence examples for a string of tragedies from inspiring English sources

In "The School," a teacher describes how his grade-school classroom has been affected by a string of tragedies.

Nobody would know how to deal with such a string of tragedies and frustrations in real life, but realism is not what this movie is about.

This development is the latest in a string of tragedies that have plagued the Latin American reporter.

In August, Notaro shocked fans by announcing that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, the latest in a string of tragedies in her life that included losing her mother and splitting with her longtime girlfriend.

The Register and other media outlets have been quick to point out that Betts' death is the latest in what appears to be a string of tragedies at Southeast Polk High School.

He talks readily about a string of personal tragedies, including the murder of his 18-year-old daughter.

It is the latest in a string of sea tragedies in the region, with more than 60 people perishing just this week.

She danced before European royalty and before Lenin, and suffered a string of personal tragedies, including the drowning of her two children.

According to her biographer, Ann G. Klein, the ten-year-old Leta, beset by a string of family tragedies, willed herself to become an adult overnight.

Though Mozart struggled during these years with almost constant insolvency and a string of personal tragedies, the end of his life was not, Wolff writes, "a time determined by resignation, hopelessness, and desolation" but, rather, a "new beginning".

But in 2012, shortly after a string of personal tragedies including a breakup, the sudden death of her mother, and several health difficulties culminating in a breast cancer diagnosis, she performed a stand-up set about her life that Louis CK called "masterful".