How to Use traumatic in a Sentence

traumatic

adjective

• The hair loss was very traumatic.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 9 Oct. 2025
• It's been a very traumatic time.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• That was such a traumatic time for a lot of people.
  — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 26 Feb. 2026
• And then to go from that to giving him a bath is quite a traumatic thing.
  — Kyler Alvord, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• Some of those stories are traumatic, but a lot of them are just bizarre.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2023
• Nali and Bruce both had traumatic pasts.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• There is no way, no way that that would have caused that traumatic of an injury.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
• After that traumatic event, each of them became the new host of the curse.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
• That was a traumatic risk that paid off in 2020.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 June 2026
• As a result of traumatic injuries from the fall, three of these climbers died.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Gains like these by rivals prove traumatic to the nation.
  — Charles Walldorf, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• This double bind can be traumatic.
  — Hind Haddad, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
• All three men were pronounced dead at the scene, with traumatic blunt force injuries as the cause.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 30 Jan. 2025
• There wasn’t a traumatic effect that caused (the hamstring strain).
  — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
• At the end of a traumatic week, Thompson could afford a wry quip.
  — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
• He was struck by at least one vehicle and killed at the scene due to traumatic injuries.
  — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
• As anyone who goes through that knows, that was a traumatic thing for our whole family.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Is there anything more traumatic for men (and now women) than fighting in a war.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• So many people who went through this kind of trauma and traumatic symptoms.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2025
• That’s why re-writing the story of the traumatic things that happened to you can help.
  — Jordan Greene, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• There’s some traumatic things that can happen between friends.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2026
• This next disruption could be even more traumatic.
  — Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
• The actress stars as Cassie, a woman who seeks vengeance for her traumatic past.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• After nearly six years on the job, a routine ride turned traumatic.
  — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
• The song came back to him years later, despite its traumatic origin.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
• Injections can be painful and scary, even traumatic.
  — Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
• So he’s gone through an incredibly traumatic event in his life.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
• In this episode, there’s a traumatic scene where a woman is burned to death by British soldiers.
  — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 7 July 2023
• Still, filming of the movie was traumatic for Blair, who was just 14 at the time.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
• But once an aide adjusted the bed’s guard rail, the two were able to snuggle and move on from the traumatic time.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025