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Example sentences for: atrocity

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

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.
Yugoslavia, claiming that the bomb killed 75 civilians, called it a NATO "atrocity."
The blast killed 28--including nine children--and injured more than 200 in the worst atrocity in 30 years of the "Troubles."
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."
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.