Sentence examples for tragedy that hit from inspiring English sources

Here in Pensacola, just 8 hours away, it was a tragedy that hit very close to home.

Not coincidentally, the memorial service is taking place just three days after the Charlie Hebdo attack — a tragedy that hit more than 2,000 miles away from Bucharest, and yet still looms over the proceedings here like an uninvited guest.

He said that if the crash were confirmed it would be "a major tragedy that has hit our whole nation and others".

But few of the well-paid pundits on television are in such a position, and as a result the tragedy that has hit 4 million families in the past two years has received scant notice.

"We have repositioned the country, fought poverty and unemployment, all these tragedies that have hit Argentines".

But their film, wild and emotional as it is, does not quite hit the deep, resonant note of tragedy that would lift it above the merely (by which I mean the merely very) good.

A lost pet — or one hit by a car while roaming after escape — is a tragedy that can often be prevented.

In 2010, Haiti was hit by the worst earthquake in its history – a humanitarian tragedy that was compounded by a cascading series of subsequent crises.

The devastating floods that hit DPR Korea in August brought her face to face with the tragedy that affected almost the entire country leaving 450 people dead and over 170,000 homeless.

"It's just a tragedy that happened.

"When a tragedy happens, it's not only the loss of a friend that hits you.