How to Use atrocity in a Sentence

atrocity

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  • Atrocities were committed by forces on both sides of the conflict.
  • That almost mythical melting atrocity might not be what everyone else sees.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • That’s what a great doc does every once in a blue moon: opens the public’s eyes to normalized atrocities and turns the tides toward a better future.
    — Tomris Laffly, EW.com, 10 July 2024
  • But given the gravity of the ongoing atrocities Uyghurs face, merely raising the issue is not enough.
    — Olivia Enos, National Review, 2 May 2024
  • Those atrocities galvanized a vast response, led by protesters across the United States.
    — Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
  • Pictures from the Middle East in the wake of Hamas’ atrocities showed young Gazans celebrating on dirt bikes.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024
  • These calls are tangible evidence that serves as an eternal auditory memorial to the atrocities.
    — Noam Barkan, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Bruno’s father, the Nazi commandant, feels very guilty about his son’s death—and perhaps for his broader culpability for the atrocities at Auschwitz, too.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Biden drew a line from the atrocities in the Holocaust to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, and said what has followed that day has been despicable.
    — Tamara Keith, NPR, 7 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If that is the case, will my resignation stop their atrocities.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • The family tries its best to drown out the sounds of screams, cries, and gunshots, but the atrocities taking place beyond the wall are undeniable, and seep in through the cracks.
    — Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • For a week, their priority had been to make sure that everyone knew about the atrocities in Otef Aza.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The first 62 games offered all kinds of fun and that, rather than this atrocity, should be the lasting memory of this year’s men’s tournament.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In 2003, mass atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region shocked the world.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In formal discourse, that’s an atrocity of both case and number.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
  • Yet some are flat-out denying that these atrocities occurred.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Hanson has remained diligent in using his platform to speak out about the atrocities in Iran.
    — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The officers had heard about the atrocities at the camp and did not impose any harsh treatment, Wagner-Wilson said.
    — Thomas Viner, ABC News, 26 July 2023
  • We’re not far removed from the atrocities of yesterday.
    — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 10 Aug. 2023
  • If the conflict ends in stalemate or cease-fire, the terrorists will have gotten away with mass atrocities on Israeli soil.
    — Michael Oren, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7 did not end that day.
    — Avner Gvaryahu, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
  • First-time director Chernov and his colleagues bear witness to the atrocities of war.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023

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