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."

  • That is a level of atrocity from which most viewers must recoil.

  • The blast killed 28--including nine children--and injured more than 200 in the worst atrocity in 30 years of the "Troubles."

  • The conservative Daily Telegraph also argued for a tough line, saying that "the atrocity cannot be allowed to go unpunished" and that if the culpability of the Serb police was established, "Milosevic should face indictment as the commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav security forces, with ultimate responsibility for their actions.

  • 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.


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