Sample sentences for ATROCITIES

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actions that are exceptionally bad or cruel

atrocities committed in the name of high ideals

There seems, however, only one plausible way of accounting for them—and yet it is dreadful to believe in such atrocity as my suggestion would imply.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
I used to fantasize about revenge against the Japanese for the atrocities they committed against the Chinese in World War II.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
It was "the lowest yet" who gave her a disgust for sex and against whom she measured all atrocities.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved
Why would you want to be involved with these...these atrocities?
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Investigators, gathering affidavits on war criminals, sat by as men told of abuses and atrocities that pushed the bounds of believability.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
My mother collapsed as the rest of us stood, stunned by the atrocity.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
She knew about the atrocities her parents were committing and did nothing to stop it.
Kass Morgan -- The 100
He said that for three years he has documented atrocities in this neighborhood, hoping that someday the people who committed them will be punished.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
They fell silent for a while as Blomkvist thought about what atrocities must have taken place there for a quarter of a century.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
We hear of atrocities on the shortwave, then hear them exaggerated on Mobutu's official newscasts, and it's hard to know what's real.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Tales of atrocities to our seamen filled the press.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
Does our education prepare us for such atrocities?
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
Apparently he has found some new atrocity.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
The curate, I found, was quite incapable of discussion; this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
These depicted Japanese atrocities in China, Italian atrocities in Ethiopia, and slaughters of women and children in the Spanish Civil War.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Such atrocities cannot stand!
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
Africans Tell of Atrocities!
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
I can't call myself a man when I allow my father to encourage such unforgivable atrocities.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass

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