martyr
Example Sentences
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Dr. King was an American patriot who was martyred for trying to bend the arc of the moral universe to justice.
From Salon
Season 1’s subjects ranged from Francis of Assisi to Moses the Black, a robber turned monk and martyr in the fourth century.
Archaeologists believe the site began as the burial place of Christian martyr St. Neophytos, said to have been killed by Roman soldiers on the shore of the lake in A.D.
On streets, banners with the faces of fighters killed in battle hang from lamp-posts, celebrating them as "martyrs of the resistance".
From BBC
He’s an unhappy but willing martyr whose heart is slowly breaking the entire time.
From Los Angeles Times
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