How to Use atrocity in a Sentence

atrocity

noun

• Atrocities were committed by forces on both sides of the conflict.
• Who could be capable of such atrocity?
• At the same time, there’s so many atrocities happening across the world at any one time.
  — Charlie H. Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• The Zone of Interest never shows the atrocities of Auschwitz.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• On Monday, Netanyahu showed Musk a video of the atrocities carried out by Hamas.
  — Simon Marks, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• Getting back at the atrocities that happened in Dallas and all across Texas.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Zone of Interest is an eerie and restrained study of the Holocaust that never shows a single frame of the atrocity.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2023
• Left-leaning users have called the campaign’s posts tone-deaf in light of the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
• Seven films were made or set in the 1940s, three of those detailing wartime atrocities.
  — J. Hoberman, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• About 15 minutes passed between the news of the atrocities committed by Hamas and the crumpling of the progressive creed.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
• If that is the case, will my resignation stop their atrocities.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 June 2023
• The family tries its best to drown out the sounds of screams, cries, and gunshots, but the atrocities taking place beyond the wall are undeniable, and seep in through the cracks.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• For a week, their priority had been to make sure that everyone knew about the atrocities in Otef Aza.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• The first 62 games offered all kinds of fun and that, rather than this atrocity, should be the lasting memory of this year’s men’s tournament.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• In 2003, mass atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region shocked the world.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• In formal discourse, that’s an atrocity of both case and number.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Yet some are flat-out denying that these atrocities occurred.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• Hanson has remained diligent in using his platform to speak out about the atrocities in Iran.
  — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 8 Sep. 2023
• The officers had heard about the atrocities at the camp and did not impose any harsh treatment, Wagner-Wilson said.
  — Thomas Viner, ABC News, 26 July 2023
• We’re not far removed from the atrocities of yesterday.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 10 Aug. 2023
• If the conflict ends in stalemate or cease-fire, the terrorists will have gotten away with mass atrocities on Israeli soil.
  — Michael Oren, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
• The atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7 did not end that day.
  — Avner Gvaryahu, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
• First-time director Chernov and his colleagues bear witness to the atrocities of war.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• That is, except for the team behind The Zone of Interest, a film about how people can become numb to atrocities happening right in front of them.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
• While atrocities such as the Hamas attacks sometimes produce a rally-round-the-flag effect for those in power, there has been no such boon for Netanyahu.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• All actors have been accused of carrying out atrocities in the conflict, but Eritrean forces have been linked to some of the most gruesome.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 26 May 2023
• The lead actor needs to really believe that the atrocities are happening and have a conviction about it...
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Kendall chugs the brown sludge of Tabasco, raw eggs, milk, Peter’s off-limits cheese, other atrocities, and a loogie of Shiv’s spit before Roman dumps the whole thing on his head.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
• Members of those groups also took part in atrocities against Jewish and Polish civilians.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• For Meitner, even worse than not being given credit for the work, was her increasing sense that Hahn was in denial about the extent of Nazi atrocities during the war.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024