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The Mysore masala dosa, as you’d expect, comes densely packed with a turmeric-tinted potato filling ignited with a chile-garlic chutney that threatens to immolate the dish.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017

So did the supporters in the gym, but Mr. Sandico did not want to immolate them prematurely.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016

Holt, now 56, is being called in to smooth over a crisis again, because no one at NBC imagined Williams' career at the network would immolate the way it did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2015

Then her eyes flash with a look that could almost immolate you, and she gives you a tongue lashing that stings for days.

From MSNBC ● Feb. 11, 2015

It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Social media runs on the righteous anger such betrayals can activate and, along with its more toxic cousins, that anger immolates most attempts at nuance.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Hoping that she can learn the Fireman's secret to Dragonscale before she immolates or has her baby, Harper sets out into the New England forest with her rescuer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2016

This mission is at once splendid and cruel; simultaneously it exalts and revolts; for the spasm through which we are passing wounds us and immolates us!...

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

Speak, then; let me at least know the name of him for whom she thus immolates herself.

From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

At thirty he coldly immolates the repose and happiness of the woman who loves him to the slightest necessity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841 by Various

Bankman-Fried’s personal fortune has been immolated over only a few days of turmoil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

My love of all things charred, blackened, browned and otherwise immolated runs deep.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2022

Am I hopeful, as a believer who prays Smith will rise, stronger and wiser, from the ashes of everything he immolated Sunday night?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2022

Still, to avoid the possibility of the spread of disease, any deer that occasionally swim onto the island are killed and immolated.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016

On the throne of immolated love He has founded a kingdom that will never end.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

She was spicy without immolating her targets, respectful without feeling phony or fawning.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

She defies the gods, falls in love with a heroic dragon-slayer and ultimately redeems the world through love before immolating herself.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

It can feel both misty and assertive, partly because of the way his effects pedals create something hot and threatening, as if he’s immolating his own notes as soon as they arrive.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2018

We have to find a way of standing up for our principles without immolating ourselves in front of everybody.”

From Time ● Sep. 24, 2013

So you see, brother, the dear girl is positively immolating herself on the altar of filial love, and what she considers duty.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables