seppuku

Example Sentences

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As a result, I was more familiar with Mishima’s life — the turn to ultraright nationalism, the attempted coup and his ensuing death by seppuku — than with his art.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

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

Now my readers will understand that seppuku was not a mere suicidal process.

From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Nitobe, Inazo