sacrificed
Example Sentences
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Sacrificed to the gods, perhaps as fertility offerings?
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023
“We the People owe him that debt. He Sacrificed for us and we must pay that debt.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Young Guard, a publication of the youth-wing of the governing United Russia Party, also published an article with the headline: “Two Women Were Sacrificed in the Name of Pussy Riot.”
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2012
Sacrificed to third, Blackmon was stranded when McHugh threw a called third strike past Jordan Pacheco and fanning Carlos Gonzalez.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2012
Sacrificed for him; that would mean adding original guilt to the sin he had inherited, and the idea of owing so much to such a degraded creature, was in the last degree humiliating.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann
