Sentence examples for a string of tragic from inspiring English sources

The horrific Orlando shooting is only the latest in a string of tragic attacks against the LGBTQ community.

The prime minister is also grappling to address a string of tragic attacks on British soil in recent months.

The TransAsia Airways turboprop plane that dramatically clipped a highway bridge in Taipei before crashing into the Keelung River last week was the latest in a string of tragic incidents that may reveal something rotten within Asia's booming airline industry.

The desperate hunt for the bombers and their associates has exposed not just the men behind the bloodshed, but a string of basic, and tragic, intelligence failures that have led some to question whether Tuesday's bloodshed could have been avoided.

Elise wouldn't like this novel any more than she liked John's stories, since most of it is a string of sometimes funny and sometimes tragic anecdotes struggling to form a coherent narrative.

In another sobering article by Allen Maki of The Toronto Globe and Mail, the family of Rick Rypien, an N.H.L. enforcer who committed suicide last year in the string of tragic deaths that rocked the league, is emphatic about not connecting the dots between Rypien's concussion-inducing job as a fighter and his suicide.

Director Rourke loads the play's first half with a string of slapstick scenes before events take a tragic turn at the wedding of Claudio (Tom Bateman) and Hero (Sarah MacRae).

And people are still reeling from the tragic costs, both human and economic, of the war in Iraq and from a string of man-made and natural disasters that caused senseless death and destruction.

After a string of bad movies that, at this point, don't even need to be repeated, Affleck portrayed the tragic George Reeves in the wonderful, if little seen, Hollywoodland.

As his career progressed and he played a string of ill-fated characters in films such as Deedar (1951; "Meeting") and Devdas (1955), his screen persona acquired tragic overtones, and he was known as the "king of tragedy".

"Some tragic unforeseen disaster could hit us, but if it doesn't, we should be in for a string of increasingly strong quarters and accelerating growth that put us back on the path to full employment," Mr. Yglesias wrote.