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?
  • And so that the rest of the world can understand the atrocity of their crimes.
    Sarah El Deeb and Andrea Rosa, miamiherald, 2 Apr. 2018
  • For more than a year and a half, the public wouldn't know about the atrocity.
    Ian Shapira, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • For more than a year and a half, the public wouldn’t know about the atrocity.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
  • In the last three, four years, the atrocities have been rampant.
    Huizhong Wu, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The atrocity that took more than 60 years to come to light: the lynching of one of their own is not well-known.
    Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2018
  • The fourth is at Beir Ahmed, where the March atrocities occurred.
    Maggie Michael, Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • There was enough atrocity on both sides to make your head spin.
    Rick Green, courant.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The message board has been linked to at least three atrocities this year.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The remark seemed to downplay the atrocities of the Holocaust.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In the morning, the full extent of the atrocity became clear.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • And the protests were all around the same issue, the same outrage, the same atrocity -- the police murder of George Floyd.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 28 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • For more than a year and a half, the details of the atrocity were hidden and covered up from the public.
    Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • Some think further atrocities by the RSF could spark fighting with the army.
    The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • For any part of that scenery to be ruined, to be destroyed, is an atrocity.
    Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • The year is 1941, and a murder in Honolulu proves to be a prelude to a much greater atrocity.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • By the time the truth of an atrocity could be established, news headlines had moved on.
    Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Open your hearts — and your wallets — to the victims of his atrocities and the countless others like him.
    Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • To date, the Jews have still not recovered from that atrocity.
    Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The Zone of Interest never shows the atrocities of Auschwitz.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And when someone comes on air and dares to explain the atrocity, well — that person needs to be cut off and shut down.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Sometimes the wisest are the youngest in our lives, the ones who haven’t yet been desensitized to the atrocities of our world.
    Katie Reilly, Time, 28 May 2018
  • The affront that such a world posed to old racial attitudes in the South led to one of the great American atrocities.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • The resulting atrocities led to the charges of genocide.
    Sarah El Deeb, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019
  • The sick desire for fame — even when purchased through atrocity — seems to be at work in many of these cases.
    Mona Charen, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
  • On Monday, Netanyahu showed Musk a video of the atrocities carried out by Hamas.
    Simon Marks, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • As Lebanon and the broader region push to recover from war and atrocities, justice must lead the rebuilding of statehood and the rule of law.
    Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Reports of state atrocities and abuses in Guatemala can be found in U.S. intelligence documents from the 1960s onward.
    Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025

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