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?
• To date, the Jews have still not recovered from that atrocity.
  — Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
• That Cruella is an atrocity with neither purpose nor soul shouldn’t come as a surprise.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 29 May 2021
• Still, the federal response to that atrocity is instructive here — partially in terms of what not to do.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 26 May 2021
• Northern newspaper reports referred to the battle as an atrocity.
  — Adrian Sainz, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• When the ideology of atrocity enters the bloodstream of a society at war, the only way to justify staying on is to ignore it or adopt it.
  — Lindsey Hilsum, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Rather than remember and atone for this atrocity, Tulsa began efforts to erase the incident from history.
  — Charles M. Blow, CBS News, 30 May 2021
• The Syrian leader is accused of widespread abuses and atrocities during the country's civil war.
  — Greg Myre, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
• The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 26 May 2021
• Ironically, this region of the country, including Galveston, is the region where the atrocity of slavery thrived.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• And the call to bring the police into line has struck a resounding chord in a country weary of war and atrocity at the hands of a host of paramilitaries, guerrilla fighters and security forces.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Many of the women are from the city of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, where some of the worst atrocities took place in the early days of the war, including the execution of civilians in the street.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
• 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
• And so Columbus has lost stature, tied not only to his own atrocities but more broadly (if indirectly) to the violent mistreatment of minorities by law enforcement in more recent years.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 11 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024