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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:

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."
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."
But they absorbed Columbine's football team community values--aggression, planning, cohesion, and physical sacrifice for the goal--in the methodical planning and execution of their 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.