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?
• 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
• On Monday, Netanyahu showed Musk a video of the atrocities carried out by Hamas.
  — Simon Marks, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• That’s not to say the Holocaust was not one of history’s worst atrocities.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2019
• Overall, 2024’s record of atrocities and attempts to quell them was mixed.
  — Collin J. Meisel, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
• The status quo will not be changed by the latest atrocity or the others that will follow, as sure as rain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• More civilians were killed in Ukraine, in acts of atrocity, than anywhere else.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• Getting back at the atrocities that happened in Dallas and all across Texas.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.
  — Stephen Miller, Bluesky Social, 5 June 2025
• Both sides would commit atrocities during the war, and loyalists were far from passive victims.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025