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
• 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
• 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
• The Zone of Interest never shows the atrocities of Auschwitz.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• On Monday, Netanyahu showed Musk a video of the atrocities carried out by Hamas.
  — Simon Marks, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• Yes, atrocity may galvanize—and that takes me back to the idea of the current, in this case, an electric current.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
• About 15 minutes passed between the news of the atrocities committed by Hamas and the crumpling of the progressive creed.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
• Friedman and Ginter know their stories will soon fade but their hope is that the lessons learned from such an atrocity will not.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
• To living through atrocity and coming out the other side.
  — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2022
• During the atrocity, men were shot and killed in barns, while women and children were also murdered when the church they were locked in was blown up.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• Bonnie should get away with a short sentence and a handshake from the mayor for burning down that atrocity to the skyline.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
• But atrocities are still being carried on in our names.
  — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• If that is the case, will my resignation stop their atrocities.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 June 2023
• Pictures from the Middle East in the wake of Hamas’ atrocities showed young Gazans celebrating on dirt bikes.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
• The family tries its best to drown out the sounds of screams, cries, and gunshots, but the atrocities taking place beyond the wall are undeniable, and seep in through the cracks.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• Even after the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, the atrocities continued.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2024
• For a week, their priority had been to make sure that everyone knew about the atrocities in Otef Aza.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• The first 62 games offered all kinds of fun and that, rather than this atrocity, should be the lasting memory of this year’s men’s tournament.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Biden drew a line from the atrocities in the Holocaust to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, and said what has followed that day has been despicable.
  — Tamara Keith, NPR, 7 May 2024
• To the outrage of Israelis and many Jews elsewhere, the original version of the letter failed to mention that Hamas’s atrocities had started the war—or to mention Hamas at all.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
• The film was shot on location in Bucha, which was the scene of real-life atrocities against civilians by Russian troops in February 2022, in a house that was occupied by the invading forces, which were forced to withdraw a month later.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024