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
• 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
• 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
• On Monday, Netanyahu showed Musk a video of the atrocities carried out by Hamas.
  — Simon Marks, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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 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
• Except this time, the paranoia centers on the United States and its many atrocities: Abu Ghraib, the drone program.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• Both the Route 74 renaming and the destruction of the three Columbus statues are small dots on a map of atrocity that spans the country.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
• 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
• The scope of the atrocity is daunting, even more so because of NoiseKat’s personal connection to the schools through his father.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
• And yet, for all these elements of breakdown, Flores has more in mind than a mere catalog of atrocities; his imagination is too capacious.
  — David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2025