How to Use traumatize in a Sentence
traumatize
verb- He was traumatized by the experience.
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Many of the children were still traumatized by the events.
— Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023 -
Hell’s Kitchen doorstep the next day, traumatized and needing a place to crash.
— Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024 -
Of course, the child is not assuaged; she is traumatized.
— Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018 -
The children of Ukraine, the ones who have survived, are traumatized.
— Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023 -
Don’t reach up for a line off a shelf and throw it in the grieving faces of the massively traumatized.
— Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024 -
And why not make that book one whose cover traumatized you as a child?
— Vulture Staff, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Botched raids can also traumatize those swept up in the chaos.
— Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022 -
The ones that survive are then traumatized and grow up full of vengeful thoughts, and the cycle goes on and on and on.
— Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024 -
Bass also said that she was left traumatized by the event.
— Kaila Nichols, CNN, 25 June 2024 -
There’s not a woman who hasn’t been traumatized by a man.
— Caira Conner, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019 -
And that’s the reason why some of our foster kids are so angry and hurt and traumatized.
— Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2019 -
Many of the people who tried to hold such a space—like the Kutz family—are dead or deeply traumatized.
— TIME, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Warning: There's a fair chance this film will traumatize you.
— Matt Kamen, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Youths were traumatized too, forced to urinate in their locked rooms because no one was around to let them out.
— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024 -
Her most recent case is a former Guardian traumatized by what he was forced to do.
— refinery29.com, 2 May 2018 -
My brain had been so traumatized because of some of the stuff that had happened to me, but that was a flood of adrenaline.
— Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024 -
She’s been traumatized and has vowed never to let that happen again.
— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024 -
And now, residents of Paradise say the smell of smoke is already enough to traumatize them anew.
— Emma Tucker, CNN, 28 July 2024 -
If they are allowed to move forward in the process, many are traumatized and struggle to tell their story, Egyes said.
— Sonia Perez D., The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018 -
All of this was happening in front of the child, who had already been traumatized by the fear that his mother had abandoned him, the lawyer said.
— Matt Campbell, kansascity, 26 June 2018 -
No matter what the outcome is, pieces of these trials that traumatize us.
— NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021 -
To traumatize the animal in a small cage, amidst lights and noise, is cruelty.
— Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 14 May 2018 -
Each moment of tension, stretched out to relay the way the absence has traumatized them both, never to be solved for.
— Holly Jones, Variety, 8 Aug. 2024 -
It’s the memories Kratos makes here that traumatize him later in life.
— Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022 -
Thao said the school would offer grief counseling to those traumatized by the shooting.
— Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024 -
An adult who undergoes this kind of treatment to heal PTSD could, in the wrong hands, end up traumatized further.
— WIRED, 15 June 2023 -
In the days after the insurrection, the constant video replays and footage served to re-traumatize him.
— Lauren Fox, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022 -
Brackett said the crimes traumatized not only the family but the entire state.
— Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024 -
If this story is inspiring you to clean the mold off your shower, by all means do — but know that superficial mold won’t traumatize your mind, body and spirit the way toxic mold from leaky buildings will.
— Melissa Kenny, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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