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

Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

From Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students by Soares, Theodore Gerald