sacrificial
Example Sentences
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“I cringed at being a sacrificial pawn in their game of relationship chess,” Davis writes.
From Los Angeles Times
She intended them “to cement her status as a sacrificial figure in the image of Socrates,” Ms. Stalnaker writes.
Christian magazine Charisma further explained that throughout the Bible, “God commands His people to ‘defend the fatherless’ and to care for orphans with compassion, justice and sacrificial love.”
From Salon
The limits of human understanding are probed as a sacrificial figure challenges the inscrutable order of the universe.
From Los Angeles Times
“Having kids is sacrificial,” she told the New York Times last week.
From Salon
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