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?
  • What can mass atrocities teach us about it?
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • There was enough atrocity on both sides to make your head spin.
    — Rick Green, courant.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Yes, that would be an atrocity.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That would be not only a shame, but an atrocity.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The message board has been linked to at least three atrocities this year.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In the last three, four years, the atrocities have been rampant.
    — Huizhong Wu, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • For more than a year and a half, the public wouldn't know about the atrocity.
    — Ian Shapira, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • For more than a year and a half, the public wouldn’t know about the atrocity.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The city saw some of the terror group’s worst atrocities.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • What if the atrocities amount to genocide?
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And so that the rest of the world can understand the atrocity of their crimes.
    — Sarah El Deeb and Andrea Rosa, miamiherald, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But atrocities should be viewed on a scale from less intense to more intense.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • For any part of that scenery to be ruined, to be destroyed, is an atrocity.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 18 May 2018
  • 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
  • She was not fired; no one, in fact, was disciplined for these atrocities.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 6 Apr. 2018
  • And an enemy who has vowed to repeat those same atrocities again and again.
    — Rabbi Steve Roth, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • By the time the truth of an atrocity could be established, news headlines had moved on.
    — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2018
  • To date, the Jews have still not recovered from that atrocity.
    — Lana Melman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
  • More civilians were killed in Ukraine, in acts of atrocity, than anywhere else.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In the morning, the full extent of the atrocity became clear.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The sick desire for fame — even when purchased through atrocity — seems to be at work in many of these cases.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
  • John and Pam Hughes called it an atrocity.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Our findings show that most atrocities do not erupt suddenly.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • This is a human atrocity, the likes of which few people have ever seen before.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • How do men stand by in the community and not address this atrocity?
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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

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