martyrize
Example Sentences
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But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Ah! how easy it is to martyrize one's self by some fatal decision made grandly in the exultation of a supreme moment!
From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold
They martyrize themselves by sacrificing everything; they spoil them and convert them into ungrateful lovers.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
