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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And now, residents of Paradise say the smell of smoke is already enough to traumatize them anew.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 28 July 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
• All of this was happening in front of the child, who had already been traumatized by the fear that his mother had abandoned him, the lawyer said.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 26 June 2018
• No matter what the outcome is, pieces of these trials that traumatize us.
  — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
• To traumatize the animal in a small cage, amidst lights and noise, is cruelty.
  — Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 14 May 2018
• Each moment of tension, stretched out to relay the way the absence has traumatized them both, never to be solved for.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024
• It’s the memories Kratos makes here that traumatize him later in life.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• Thao said the school would offer grief counseling to those traumatized by the shooting.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024
• Brackett said the crimes traumatized not only the family but the entire state.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024