How to Use trauma in a Sentence

trauma

noun
  • She never fully recovered from the traumas she suffered during her childhood.
  • She never fully recovered from the trauma of her experiences.
  • The accident victim sustained multiple traumas.
  • All that trauma is in her veins.
    — Kennedy French, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The cause of death was blunt force trauma.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The trauma doesn't leave your body.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • What is the dark trauma that even death cannot erase?
    — Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • At least one of the dogs died due to blunt force trauma.
    — Seamus Bozeman follow, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • There may be some head trauma that is involved.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 6 May 2026
  • The trauma can change how victims move through the world.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Napoli said the scars of trauma lingered for a long time.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The cause of death for all three victims was blunt force trauma.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2023
  • While some jump for fun, many are looking to cope with trauma.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In order to cope with his trauma, his brain blocked it all out.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 10 June 2025
  • But there's trauma on the other side, too.
    — Heidi Yewman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Their friendship can’t just be based on trauma.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Some survivors speak about their trauma right away.
    — Windsor Johnston, NPR, 25 May 2026
  • Your body carries a lot of trauma.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Duprey was pronounced dead from blunt force trauma to the head.
    — Mark Prussin, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • They were both pronounced dead from blunt force trauma.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Around one-quarter of avalanche deaths are caused by trauma.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Music pierces through trauma's fog when words can't reach you.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • By most accounts, this was a trauma.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • His cause of death was listed as blunt head trauma and stab wounds, records showed.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • War chewed him up, and trauma makes a hack job of memory.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The trauma still haunts the victim more than two years later.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 26 May 2024
  • But the trauma in our screens—that is also the real world.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • No one gets over that kind of trauma and the most painful scars are the ones people don’t see.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 July 2023
  • For some who fled into the water, the ocean is still a source of trauma.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Nearly 46% of the deaths were due to blunt force trauma.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026

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