Sample Sentences foratrocity (editor-reviewed)
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The bombing of the hospital was condemned worldwide as an atrocity.atrocity = act that is exceptionally bad or cruel
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The historical record is filled with examples of atrocities committed in the name of high ideals.atrocities = actions that are exceptionally bad
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I have to call him a second time for him to stop that atrocity and come over. (source)atrocity = action that is exceptionally bad
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"Maybe not," said the Prime Minister, standing up and striding about the room, "but I would have put all my efforts into catching the blackmailer before he committed any such atrocity!" (source)atrocity = an exceptionally bad or cruel act
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When I heard stories of the atrocities in Afghanistan I felt proud to be in Swat. (source)atrocities = exceptionally bad or cruel actions
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Investigators, gathering affidavits on war criminals, sat by as men told of abuses and atrocities that pushed the bounds of believability. (source)
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That we were committing atrocities. (source)atrocities = exceptionally bad or cruel actions
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My mother collapsed as the rest of us stood, stunned by the atrocity.† (source)
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It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds — scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like. (source)
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As though making those ancillaries was not an atrocity in itself.† (source)
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The Republicans, he said, were taking their orders from the Reds, as had already been shown by their seizure of property, the slaughter of peaceful civilians, and the atrocities committed against religion. (source)
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Nearly everybody seemingly, had an atrocity story of something Billy Pilgrim had done to him in his sleep.† (source)
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I can't call myself a man when I allow my father to encourage such unforgivable atrocities.† (source)
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Although I didn't really understand it at the time, like Colin Powell, he was telling me that our blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave.† (source)
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But I want to know about these Irish atrocities.† (source)
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Most people seemed satisfied with the thin decorative glaze and the artful stage lighting that, sometimes, made the bedrock atrocity of the human predicament look somewhat more mysterious or less abhorrent.† (source)
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