awful tragedy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofawfulandtragedy
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awful
adjective
uk/ˈɔː.fəl/us/ˈɑː.fəl/
extremely bad ...
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tragedy
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/us/ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/
a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death ...
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(Definition ofawfulandtragedyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Sixteen months ago, anawfultragedytook place in this country.
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It is unfortunate that thisawfultragedyhas now become a bland, everyday statistic.
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Anything else would be anawfultragedy.
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And so theawfultragedygoes on.
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It is because we dread lest exactly the same faults which led to thatawfultragedyare now being repeated that our anxiety is so great.
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I recognise the fine record of our railways, but we must keep in proportion theawfultragedywhich occurred in the early hours of this morning.
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Anawfultragedyhas already occurred.
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The new humanitarian coalition is our best chance of bringing that about and, then, from thisawfultragedy, we can wrest some good.
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There is nothing so hateful as to talk of the possibility of future wars after theawfultragedyof the past few years.
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It was anawfultragedy.
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That would have been anawfultragedy.
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If thisawfultragedyis coming to the world in the near future, next week, there will be no possible division between us.
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If they pay some attention to that factor, the public may learn the lesson so that such anawfultragedydoes not occur again.
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Despite all the promises, the western powers appear to be standing by as the wholeawfultragedyunfolds again.
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Every now and then, those who think that they know best are caught out by someawfultragedythat their rational minds could not foresee.
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I live on the very brow of the hill on the other side of which thisawfultragedystruck the innocents of that village.
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Theawfultragedy, for the orchestra, was that eventually we were not able to play the standard classics.
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There were three further awful tragedies in the 1980s: two in this country and one abroad.
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Some awful tragedies have taken place around the world.
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I share the grief at the awful tragedies of war.
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