Sentence examples for traumatised them from inspiring English sources

The hospital traumatised them more – that can destroy a child forever".

There were certain events and certain things that happened that traumatised them and brought them to that point you don't see that a lot, especially with black villains.

Then, as if this wasn't bad enough, over half of them said their journey through the criminal justice system was the most difficult aspect in the aftermath of their bereavement, and in many cases actually re-traumatised them.

"Kids will either really love it or it will traumatise them".

Their big fear was that the shock of contact with the west would traumatise them, or make them so different they could never return.

But I've always been careful not to tell my children too much about what I went through so as not to traumatise them.

Everything is your fault: if you stick around and look after your kids, you screw them up with your presence; if you push off and hire childcare, you traumatise them with the lack of quality 'mummy' time you spend together.

Writing about Art Basel in his new book, Saatchi sums up the ambivalence that many in the art world feel towards fairs: "I've always believed it is important for artists never to be allowed near an art fair for fear the disillusionment with being part of a meat market would traumatise them into abandoning their brushes".

Good way to traumatise them.

After all, these people are already fleeing death, violence and persecution; the least we could do is give them a fair chance at safety in the UK without re-traumatising them along the way.

'We'd have these boys lining up for massage, but some of them are so traumatised they won't allow anyone to touch them, so sometimes the therapist would have to do it over their Nike caps,' she says.