martyr

After he was shot in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996, he became immortalised as a kind of martyr for the lifestyle he helped make famous.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Lim believes the judge will hand down a life sentence, though, so as to "avoid making Yoon a martyr".

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

“Every martyr disappears into the cult of personality,” Sharlet said.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

I had been selfish and hyper-sensitive, a martyr to my own inferiority complex.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The chain was accused of trivialising the nation's landmark protest movement and insulting the dead, remembered as martyrs by many South Koreans.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of some of the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement, all of whom were devastated by the court’s Callais ruling.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Tertullian, an early Christian writer, taught that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

But even people who aren’t being silenced, such as all the folks crying “cancel culture” after being called names on social media, steal the valor of bona fide free speech martyrs.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

Youngsters whose blood was shed in the battle against apartheid were called martyrs.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

"Bakers died while making bread" in the village square and "municipal workers were martyred while using bulldozers", the 55-year-old said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Mohammad Mokhber, a former Iranian vice president, called the new supreme leader “the complete mirror of our martyred leader, Imam Khamenei.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Making a profile documentary about the martyred Tejano music icon, whose life and career have already been the subject of a popular film and a scripted TV series, must be a daunting task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Dr. King was an American patriot who was martyred for trying to bend the arc of the moral universe to justice.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025

After a moment, he said, “So will we be martyred, too?”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“I think he wanted something on his résumé, some way of martyring himself, so he could say ‘They’re out to get me.’”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

Their happiness is paramount, though I am also not interested in martyring myself on the altar of motherhood.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2020

Jamie is the master of his fate, Jamie puts himself in harms way, Jamie is martyring himself, no one asked him to do all the things he does for others.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2017

David Cronenberg’s “The Dead Zone” makes a curse out of a gift, martyring a man who can see the future at the price of his life.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017

She sits down next to me, crunching and martyring her way through the bowl of dry cereal, eyeing my plate the whole time.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson