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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 staggering amount reflects both the scope of the atrocities and the number of survivors, experts say.
    — Ali Martin, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The Zone of Interest is an eerie and restrained study of the Holocaust that never shows a single frame of the atrocity.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Both sides have been accused of atrocities, with the RSF — accused of genocide.
    — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Left-leaning users have called the campaign’s posts tone-deaf in light of the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Seven films were made or set in the 1940s, three of those detailing wartime atrocities.
    — J. Hoberman, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • As a result, this shallow depth of field relegates much of the nonstop atrocities to the blurred periphery.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

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