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How To Use atrocious In A Sentence

• Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
• I would venture the opinion that the TRC was a logical conclusion to our atrocious and shameful past. SPEECH BY ADV DE LANGE ANC MP DURING THE PRESIDENT'S TABLING OF RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO THE TRC
• The troops suffered atrocious conditions in bitterly cold winters, with temperatures down to minus 30C. Times, Sunday Times
• The ceremony was witnessed by about a hundred people, in atrocious weather conditions, but the event still went off well.
• Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• I am a sub-editor for a website myself and know this to be extremely hard work, but any writer that chose to use such atrocious English as that would have the book thrown at them. Monthly Firefox-Themed Wallpapers With Embedded Calendars | Lifehacker Australia
• Ordinary people here have shown they care about the atrocious living conditions of our indigenous peoples.
• On Thursday Woods hit the ball decently and putted atrociously. Tiger Woods struggles again but makes the cut at Fry.com Open
• The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help.
• There are plenty of grown-ups who could give a hoot about anything to do with the poorly-written, atrociously-acted mess that is Twilight. This week's cover: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's costars does he find the most difficult? His hair. | EW.com