How do you use Atrocity in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like inhumanity or barbarity, plus the exact meaning.
Atrocity in a sentence
Atrocity meaning
- An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
- The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
- An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
Synonyms of Atrocity
Using Atrocity
- The main meaning on this page is: An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice. | The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty. | An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
- Useful related words include: inhumanity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness.
- In the example corpus, atrocity often appears in combinations such as: the atrocity, atrocity and, an atrocity.
Context around Atrocity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Atrocity
- In this selection, "atrocity" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jurisprudence, commit, rationalizing, crimes, jurisprudence and policing stand out and add context to how "atrocity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as an atrocity because these and atrocity jurisprudence atrocity policing in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "atrocity" sits close to words such as abrasive, adjournment and amalgamation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with atrocity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Let these not become merely rubbed-down shorthand for anonymous atrocity. (11 words)
The suspect in this atrocity is very much being held accountable. (11 words)
It just took that atrocity for the rest of the world to finally ask. (14 words)
In a video message during the plenary session of the Second Session for Summit for Democracy, Marcos said the Philippines has been committed to fighting impunity for atrocity crimes despite the country’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute in 2019. (40 words)
And if the inquiry provides even an iota of comfort to the bereaved families – and to those of Letby's other potential victims – then it will perhaps go some small way to help them live with this atrocity. (38 words)
The chair of trustees at a mosque which was accused of turning a "blind eye" to extremist views prior to the Manchester Arena attack said he "would have done anything" to prevent the 2017 atrocity. (35 words)
How do I begin to describe the atrocity of three Fort Lauderdale city commissioners voting to accept a bridge through the center of downtown? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
Assisted by a species of atrocity-jurisprudence, atrocity-policing in Nigeria has been resilient and has grown in both intensity and impunity.
And if the inquiry provides even an iota of comfort to the bereaved families – and to those of Letby's other potential victims – then it will perhaps go some small way to help them live with this atrocity.
A regime that is allowed to commit genocide and violate international agreements with impunity is a regime that will be emboldened to continue to commit atrocity crimes and threaten others beyond its borders.
As many as 40 babies and small children were killed, IDF soldiers told i24News after taking them to the scene of the atrocity.
Beshear earlier fought back tears as he revealed one of his friends had been killed in the atrocity - and a second was wounded.
How do I begin to describe the atrocity of three Fort Lauderdale city commissioners voting to accept a bridge through the center of downtown?
I am very conscious of the devastation brought to the lives of so many by the atrocity which took place in Omagh in August 1998.
In a video message during the plenary session of the Second Session for Summit for Democracy, Marcos said the Philippines has been committed to fighting impunity for atrocity crimes despite the country’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute in 2019.
International allies have condemned any attack on a camp as an "atrocity" because these people inside have already lived under deplorable conditions for generations.
It just took that atrocity for the rest of the world to finally ask.
I took Wiesel's message to be that "Never Again" must apply to all people everywhere, because if we let our hearts harden enough, we're all capable of rationalizing atrocity.
It will also 'change the behavior' of large players in the private sector who 'too often turn a blind eye' to the atrocity, he added.
Let these not become merely rubbed-down shorthand for anonymous atrocity.
Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden, 21, was among the 29 killed in the 1998 dissident republican atrocity, said he had not been aware of O’Connor’s contribution until after her death.
On the other hand, when asked by the media about the incidents of recent crime against women across the country, MP Hema Malini said that it is an atrocity on women.
Seneca Scott, a cousin of Coretta Scott King, to the structure as “a grotesque symbol of postmodernism,” “an atrocity,” and, well, a few more graphic descriptions.
The atrocity built outside the 300-year-old St Patrick’s Church in Patrick Street is surely the winner of this year’s prize for grotesque ugliness.
The chair of trustees at a mosque which was accused of turning a "blind eye" to extremist views prior to the Manchester Arena attack said he "would have done anything" to prevent the 2017 atrocity.
The idea that the AMA could endorse such a thing, to say nothing of calling on the taxpayers to subsidize it, is an atrocity.
The suspect in this atrocity is very much being held accountable.
Common combinations with atrocity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the atrocity 30×
- atrocity and 10×
- an atrocity 10×
- this atrocity 8×
- atrocity crimes 8×
- of atrocity 7×
- atrocity in 5×
- atrocity was 4×
- atrocity of 3×
- atrocity on 3×