How to Use traumatize in a Sentence

traumatize

verb

• He was traumatized by the experience.
• Many of the children were still traumatized by the events.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• Hell’s Kitchen doorstep the next day, traumatized and needing a place to crash.
  — Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Digging back to the past seemed to traumatize her all over again.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
• Of course, the child is not assuaged; she is traumatized.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
• The children of Ukraine, the ones who have survived, are traumatized.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
• Don’t reach up for a line off a shelf and throw it in the grieving faces of the massively traumatized.
  — Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• And why not make that book one whose cover traumatized you as a child?
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2023
• Botched raids can also traumatize those swept up in the chaos.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
• The ones that survive are then traumatized and grow up full of vengeful thoughts, and the cycle goes on and on and on.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024
• Bass also said that she was left traumatized by the event.
  — Kaila Nichols, CNN, 25 June 2024
• There’s not a woman who hasn’t been traumatized by a man.
  — Caira Conner, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
• The men who stepped off the plane were sun-browned, skinny and traumatized from their month-long, nearly 3,000-mile saga.
  — David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
• And that’s the reason why some of our foster kids are so angry and hurt and traumatized.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Many of the people who tried to hold such a space—like the Kutz family—are dead or deeply traumatized.
  — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
• The tragedy has left the family traumatized and drowning in debt.
  — Brenda Medina, miamiherald, 28 Dec. 2017
• Warning: There's a fair chance this film will traumatize you.
  — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Those caught up in the shifting conflict say they have been traumatized.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• Youths were traumatized too, forced to urinate in their locked rooms because no one was around to let them out.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Her most recent case is a former Guardian traumatized by what he was forced to do.
  — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
• My brain had been so traumatized because of some of the stuff that had happened to me, but that was a flood of adrenaline.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• There’s going to be a lot of people who are injured and traumatized from this ...
  — Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 20 Sep. 2017
• She’s been traumatized and has vowed never to let that happen again.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
• Medina said the poor dog was scared and traumatized, and had bitten the man for swatting him.
  — Janet H. Cho, cleveland.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Marge, the school social worker, said that the boys’ classmates were traumatized by 9/11.
  — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 11 Sep. 2017
• And now, residents of Paradise say the smell of smoke is already enough to traumatize them anew.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 28 July 2024
• For thousands of years, in fact, solar eclipses traumatized cultures around the world.
  — Lee Roop, AL.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Just getting to and from your car can put you in a near death experience and traumatize you for years.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024
• If they are allowed to move forward in the process, many are traumatized and struggle to tell their story, Egyes said.
  — Sonia Perez D., The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
• The citizens of the United States have been sold out, misinformed and traumatized by the current crop of public health fraudsters.
  — Josh Mazer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025