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How to use atrocity in a sentence

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Meat eaters think this is a joke but it's not funny to people who believe it's an atrocity to eat murdered animals.
This seeming indifference to atrocity feeds the central government's sinking reputation at home and abroad.
The effect of an atrocity of such a magnitude on the government and public should never be underestimated.
Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
Along with the atrocity of holy wars, there are other questionable things such as sexism, racism and homophobia.
If there is a further atrocity while politicians are sunning themselves, public anger will be uncontainable.
And so they became a marginal but prophetic group willing to testify with their lives to the atrocity of war and coercion.
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world.
The scale of the atrocity may actually have speeded up the collective urge to absorb the shock and get back to business.
Depending on your tastes, it was a golden moment in the history of British music or a cringe-making aural atrocity.
Yet even when Rome's enemies matched the superpower atrocity for atrocity, they were not necessarily forfeiting their chances of posthumous fame.
Also the killing of these animals is only the last atrocity that they have to suffer throughout their short, tragic lives.
For months and years afterwards, the media has dedicated endless hours of airtime reporting and reflecting on the atrocity.
This latest atrocity has sent a fresh shock wave to jolt us out of our complacency.
It has become absurdly easy to frame whatever group is supposed to take the blame for an atrocity.
Or maybe the people buying this atrocity are the same humourless sad sacks who catapulted Mr. Blobby to the top of the charts a decade ago.
It just haunted me that people could get to a place where bombing clinics or shooting abortionists is seen as anything other than an atrocity.
It is by no means a masterpiece, but it is not the godawful atrocity that many backward-thinking critics have made it out to be.
A splatter film's charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer's soul.
To respond to mass atrocity with legal prosecutions is to embrace the rule of law.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Doctor Crosson mopped his brow at the atrocity of his thoughts this morning.
The enemy, he said, meant by this atrocity to frighten our sailors away from the sea.
The folly of such a government corrects and tempers its atrocity.
It was not content with atrocity, it must needs add cynicism.
At the time when this atrocity was perpetrating not an officer interfered.
In the meantime, the crowning atrocity was committed at Cawnpore.
No train of self-deceit had reconciled his conscience to its atrocity.
Mr Biddle described the attack as the inquests into the 52 killed entered its fifth week at the Royal Courts of Justice with details of the Edgware Road atrocity.
Later today he will meet with relatives on the 14th anniversary of the atrocity to privately remember Ruth McCourt, 45, and her four-year-old daughter Juliana.
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