Sentences with 'atrocious'
Example sentences and phrases with the word atrocious and other words derived from it.
• « Living conditions for slaves were often atrocious, and strict supervision and the use of violent discipline ensured that no slave revolt succeeded (despite the best efforts of revolt leaders, such as Spartacus in the 1st century BC). »
• « Imposing a system of forced labour known as the mita, Spanish officials forced thousands of the region's native inhabitants to work in atrocious conditions, often to death from exhaustion. »