Sentence examples for suffered a terrible tragedy from inspiring English sources

Kenya suffered a terrible tragedy at Westgate.

Around the same time, Todd Field, aka William Field, then a 25-year-old from Oregon testing the acting waters in New York, suffered a terrible tragedy.

The novel tells the story of an Indian family that comes to America in 1979 and, two years later, suffers a terrible tragedy.

Two of the novels on this year's fiction longlist are débuts: "The Turner House," by Angela Flournoy, follows a black family living in Detroit during the city's economic collapse, and "Did You Ever Have a Family," by the literary agent and memoirist Bill Clegg, is about a peripatetic woman who has suffered a terrible personal tragedy.

"The lives of our entire family have been turned upside down forever by this unimaginable human tragedy and Reeva's family have suffered a terrible loss.

Emerging-market equities suffered a terrible week.

He had suffered a terrible loss.

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001.

We suffered a terrible blow, but we are coming back.

Labour suffered a terrible defeat at the election.

In the mid-1980s the oil industry suffered a terrible slump.