Example Sentences

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For Waukesha residents, the trial painfully revisited a day that had traumatized the city.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

The juror who started it all told the deputies that they had traumatized the potential jurors, according to the reporter.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2022

The revelation that her children had blithely enjoyed a television show starring the man who had traumatized her life hit unexpectedly hard, Valentino said.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2016

The two world wars had traumatized her—her brother was killed in the first, and her father during the Blitz, while Yates herself volunteered as an ambulance attendant—exacerbating her already melancholy temperament.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2015

But the U.S. had finally extricated itself from a war that had traumatized American society for a whole generation.

From Time Magazine Archive