How to Use atrocious in a Sentence

atrocious

adjective

• It would seem that by now the Tigers might be weary of analyzing their roller-coaster season, sick of reliving their atrocious 9-23 start and comparing it with their recent hot streak.
  — Sports Illustrated, 4 Sept. 2000
• The case has shed light on Sudan’s atrocious record on women’s rights.
  — Farid Y. Farid, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2018
• His putting has been nothing short of atrocious this week, and virtually all of the misses have been left.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 4 May 2018
• More reforms will likely be needed, given Uber’s fairly atrocious safety record.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2018
• When those leads slipped away, one primarily due to atrocious infield defense, Counsell changed his modus operandi.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2018
• Thursday night traffic for Edgewater Live concerts could be atrocious.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• These are the top 10 kinds of awful out there, though some particularly atrocious humans seem to check off nearly every box on the list.
  — Alyssa Fiorentino, House Beautiful, 10 July 2018
• Everything went wrong in an atrocious second inning, in which the SeaWolves scored seven runs on seven hits and two errors.
  — Christopher Hanna, courant.com, 13 June 2018
• Covington was a constant on the atrocious, 10-win team from two seasons ago, and also on the promising, 28-win team from last season.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• Aid groups say conditions for migrants on the shores of lawless Libya are atrocious and accuse Italy of being complicit in the abuse of those migrants.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2018
• Some keto adherents also report having pretty atrocious breath, which might be caused by the presence of acetone, a ketone and by-product of fat metabolism, in exhaled breath.
  — Daniel Schultz, Ms, SELF, 16 Apr. 2018
• Apple Music’s search is particularly atrocious, and Spotify’s search engine found no matches for my Drake query.
  — Micah Singleton, The Verge, 25 May 2018
• The Giants’ bullpen has been atrocious, with a 6.08 ERA, the second–worst mark in the league.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2020
• The Musketeers were atrocious at that end of the floor.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2022
• The noises from above were atrocious: blasts of fire, grunts of pain, shrieks of rage.
  — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
• Ceiling fans have changed a lot since the days of my atrocious ‘90s fan.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2021
• The killing of George Floyd was atrocious—words cannot even describe it.
  — Bethany Heitman, Health.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• The starting five combined to shoot an atrocious 18-of-73 from the field.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• The Ravens have no clue in pass defense, and the tackling from this group is atrocious.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• It’s been three years, four weeks, and one day since the atrocious finale aired on HBO.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 June 2022
• The Wildcats offense has been even more atrocious than the Huskies have.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
• To be fair to Brissett, the running game was atrocious as well.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2019
• Given all the fish, the puppy’s breath must have been atrocious.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
• Those accused of atrocious crimes were in the custody of the victors.
  — Aryeh Neier, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2021
• This is atrocious, this is wrong, this is the aggressor, this is the one that needs to end this war.
  — Manu Raju, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• If that sounds like an atrocious amount of money to pay for Jones, that comes in the future.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• This is a matchup of teams that are atrocious in the turnover ratio, with the Dolphins at minus-14 and Giants at minus-13.
  — Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• After all, the offense was weak and the run defense was atrocious in 2019.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2020
• Lindor has been atrocious at the plate to start the season going 11-for-73 to start the season.
  — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• Daniels, sporting an atrocious, two-toned hairpiece, belts his lines in an accent that lands somewhere between Foghorn Leghorn and Gomer Pyle.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024