How to Use traumatize in a Sentence

traumatize

verb

• He was traumatized by the experience.
• And then we get traumatized by a whole troll.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
• Some of us are still traumatized by that.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2025
• My kids, the three of them, are traumatized.
  — Dan Snyder, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
• And why not make that book one whose cover traumatized you as a child?
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2023
• Digging back to the past seemed to traumatize her all over again.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
• Botched raids can also traumatize those swept up in the chaos.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
• He was traumatized, and his neck and arm are still injured, the claim said.
  — Ryan Oehrli march 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
• Yet at the same time, the city has been traumatized and people need space to grieve, too.
  — Janna A. Zanzi, AFAR Media, 8 Jan. 2025
• The victims said they had been traumatized.
  — CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
• Those caught up in the shifting conflict say they have been traumatized.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• She’s been traumatized and has vowed never to let that happen again.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
• Even looking at pictures of my friend now traumatizes me.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2026
• Hell’s Kitchen doorstep the next day, traumatized and needing a place to crash.
  — Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Well, sure, maybe the people who lived through that traumatizing time don’t.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 6 Apr. 2017
• The war has traumatized every member of the team.
  — Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 27 Feb. 2026
• Christa said the cat seems OK but may be a little traumatized.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2025
• Bud, who’d witnessed his father’s demise, was traumatized by it.
  — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• It was developed for soldiers who came back from the war and were traumatized.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
• And that’s the reason why some of our foster kids are so angry and hurt and traumatized.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Her most recent case is a former Guardian traumatized by what he was forced to do.
  — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
• No matter what the outcome is, pieces of these trials that traumatize us.
  — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
• Don’t reach up for a line off a shelf and throw it in the grieving faces of the massively traumatized.
  — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• There have been many false alarms and rumors that keep re-traumatizing people.
  — Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2026
• The mother is killed, and the daughter traumatized.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 25 June 2026
• Halsing said the stabbing has left him traumatized.
  — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
• Hoffman said those posts traumatize him and his family all over again.
  — Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• The tragedy has left the family traumatized and drowning in debt.
  — Brenda Medina, miamiherald, 28 Dec. 2017
• Kids and spouses are traumatized.
  — Ava Pukatch, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026