"tragically dead" is a correct expression that can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to someone who has died in an unusual or unexpected manner. Example: The young boy was tragically dead after being struck by a car while crossing the street.
Some feel their ancestors are as nobly and tragically dead as any soldiers under any flag, and would honour them independently of the worth of the war that consumed them – a distinction we've accepted since the moral quandary of Vietnam.
To be perfectly honest, the dour and detached Dalgliesh, suffering loner (young wife tragically dead in childbirth years ago, along with baby son), might enjoy a change of scene.
So, tragically dead agent, very sad C.J., and... star of a new hit TV show.
One of the most talked about was Asif Kapadia's heartbreaking "Amy," an unblinking documentary look at the short and troubled life of bravura British singer Amy Winehouse, tragically dead at age 27.
But we owe it to the children of America still alive, as well as those tragically dead at Newtown, to try to find out and not treat this plague as just one damn thing after another in our turbulent lives.
When the image of a drowned Syrian boy on a beach appeared last month, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott described it as "a very sad, poignant image of children tragically dead at sea in illegal migration".
Our iPhone-centric culture, though, has had its casualties – quite literally, in the case of the two publicans who were tragically shot dead by police at an illegal protest in 2011 against the mandatory introduction of the now commonplace anti-binge-drinking Breathalyser app, which monitors citizens' alcohol intake via Google Earth, GPS and CCTV facial recognition software.
She was tragically pronounced dead after being taken by ambulance to Sierra Providence East Hospital.
Wrongly convicted inmate John Coffey isn't resurrected after his execution he's still, tragically, very dead.
But I share the conviction that Israel's many attempts at peace and territorial concessions have led, not to an end of conflict, but tragically to dead Jews and a never-ending stream of rockets fired at Israeli hospitals and schools.
"Crew on the Passions boat worked to save them all, including CPR and using oxygen, but tragically two are dead," he told the Cairns Post.
