How to Use traumatized in a Sentence

traumatized

adjective
  • The rest of that day is a blur as my psyche was so traumatized.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • What does that mean to be born with the neuronal makeup of a traumatized or stressed parent?
    Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
  • And these statistics do not account for the maimed, the raped, the traumatized, etc.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Teachers and students alike are traumatized and unable to feel safe.
    Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • There’d be no one left to ask lonely, traumatized mothers anything.
    Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Mun-oh gets the traumatized boy to tell him about his parents by crafting a narrative.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Tilt and the gallant escort was replaced by a boy too traumatized to leave his mother’s side.
    Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Poor Gretchen is going to be even more traumatized than Henry when all this is over.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Kitsch plays Isaac, a traumatized man struggling to overcome his demons and find a reason to live.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Plaintiffs said some of their clients are too young to speak and others are too traumatized and do not know English.
    Janie Har, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The idea is to spare a traumatized child the ordeal of several interviews.
    New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • When someone dies by suicide, survivors are often shocked and traumatized.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Hollis, traumatized and grieving, embarked on a path that would lead to the fortress police build around their comrades.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The number of offspring were cut in half, and many of the young of parents that were exposed to fear were less healthy than their non-traumatized peers.
    Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Paxton’s office has said the victim did not want to testify again to avoid being re-traumatized.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026
  • When people are very traumatized, the capacity to hear the other is destroyed.
    Maria Streshinsky, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2024
  • The traumatized brain is another.
    Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
  • Owen, starting the show, is this really traumatized, broken human.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 May 2026
  • While implementing data science, the team wants to offer a safe space for users who may feel traumatized and isolated.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The traumatized father makes the kind of decision that no parent should ever have to make, with drastic repercussions.
    Thelma Adams, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • According to Honea, though, the people of Oroville remain traumatized.
    Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • Krasner described a traumatized neighborhood Wednesday, with curtains closed, doors locked and an absence of cars on the street.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • The hidden cost of crime Violent crime doesn’t just leave behind police tape and traumatized families.
    Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The late-night attempt to spirit the children out of the country left many traumatized and fearful, according to court documents.
    Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2025
  • At this point, Monroe is used to playing cold, traumatized and tortured women who have an uncanny knack for finding and confronting evil.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • Graffiti alleged the firm had links to an Israeli arms manufacturer, but traumatized staff there said this wasn’t the case.
    Alex Holmes, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The traumatized crew that sailed with Blackbeard doesn’t so easily return the gentle kindness that Stede preaches to his crew.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The traumatized but steel-nerved Early, in retreat from a world that has done great violence to her, turns out to be the wellspring of the family’s survival.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The refugees, the suicides, the disabled, the unsheltered, the traumatized, the ones who have departed this reality.
    Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The traumatized little boy with a stutter became one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood and on Broadway.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024

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