seppuku

Example Sentences

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So, I commit first-date seppuku and tell him about my lens and my vision loss.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

“I loved it. But it’d be committing theatrical seppuku to transfer it,” a theater critic mutters to another at the show’s after party.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021

Cicadas have a much higher-stakes conundrum when it comes to their sort of reproductive seppuku: they die shortly after mating, offering themselves up in order to ensure the continuation of the next generation.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2021

It sounds as if she would gladly commit seppuku, if only that didn’t require the sin of cultural appropriation: “I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 21, 2016

A study of the origin and development of the national method of self-destruction shows that suicide by seppuku, or opening of the abdomen, was first a custom, and then a privilege.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot