burnt offering
Example Sentences
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In the superb season finale, Kendall is like a burnt offering kindling an unexpected sea of flames.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2019
But this novel is not simply a burnt offering, a Baedeker of dread and decay.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017
As though the sheer bulk of that paper would deter me from putting it back in my wallet, and, defeated, I’d simply leave it there for you like a burnt offering on your sticky altar.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010
Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would try to ease the punishment which he declared was greater than he could bear, and with burnt offering and architecture would seek to propitiate an angry God.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
