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Example sentences for: atrocity

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The latest atrocity is a mass killing of 24 civilians and rebels during a raid on their supposed stronghold.
The blast killed 28--including nine children--and injured more than 200 in the worst atrocity in 30 years of the "Troubles."
Specifically, the author supports the "dignity" which the TRC accords to victims, and its refutation of the "amnesia and denial that so often follow periods of national atrocity."
Again and again we read or hear that some bank or other commercial establishment services its customers better than some other; and how often in recent years have we heard and read that a terrorist group has claimed credit for yet another atrocity?
That is a level of atrocity from which most viewers must recoil.