Example sentences for: atrocity

How can you use “atrocity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an editorial Monday, China Daily expressed its "stalwart moral support for the protests that are blazing across the country against the US-directed NATO atrocity."

  • Like all such atrocity material, it undermined the morale of the side responsible for the pain it depicted.

  • From this brilliant overture, it's obvious that the writer-director, David O. Russell, wants to break down your defenses against cinema's violent imagery: He's juxtaposing farce and atrocity in ways that few American directors have dared.

  • Algerian atrocity watch : Militants 1) decapitated or cut the throats of 12 children and 26 adults in one village; 2) similarly massacred 22 children and 15 adults in another village; 3) slaughtered 20 teen-agers and young adults at a wedding; and 4) attacked a school bus and killed the driver and 16 children, some of whom were shot through the head.

  • Walker's clean-cut detective heroes (Brad Pitt in Seven , Nicolas Cage in 8MM ) embark on odysseys into the nether region, where they view atrocity after atrocity before arriving at the source: an evil that is pure, unrepentant, and infectious.


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