McCall beat out a bunt; Ashwell sacrificed and Stringer laced one of his beautiful triples against the fence.
When Tay saw it coming he dropped on his knees and valorously sacrificed his anatomy to the cause of the game.
His bony fingers gripped the reptile as in a vice as slowly he moved across the strange apartment, and, without uttering a sound, sacrificed it on the blazing brazier.
I'd havesacrificed you for her, if there'd been even a sporting chance.
So many Jewish revolutionists havesacrificed their lives by 'going to the people'--to the Russian people.
The highest bliss of martyrdom was to be mobbed by the very crowd for whose welfare you sacrificed yourself.
The wife of the grand-duke, the beautiful and interesting princess for whom he had sacrificed a crown, hearing the struggle, was found on her knees offering up prayers to Heaven for the safety of her husband.
However, I throw myself into the imagination that he may blessedly pity us far more than we can ever pity him; and the great thing is that even our sense of him as sacrificed only keeps him the more intensely with us.
In some of these towns he put the inhabitants under a ban, and sacrificed them to Moloch in a great slaughter.
Then he sacrificed young men and maidens: but the blood still bubbled.
On this sacrifice of children to Moloch, which the Phoenicians referred back to the god El or Il, once King of Byblos, who in a crisis of danger sacrificed his eldest son Icond, see Plut.
The sots had a distinctive dress, its |306| most characteristic feature being a hood with asses' ears, probably a relic of the primitive days when the heads of sacrificed animals were worn by festal worshippers.
It has been conjectured that this is meant to resemble a swine's bristles, and that the man represents a hog sacrificed to Frey.
We have here another survival of that oft-noted custom of skin-wearing, which, as has been seen, originated apparently in a desire for contact with the sanctity of the sacrificed victim.
A very large proportion of the ships cast away and lives sacrificed are so in consequence of the habitual intoxication of the masters and their officers.
The convoy was expected to sail immediately, and the interests of my employers, Garrard, Janrin and Company, would be sacrificed should the sailing of the ship be delayed by my neglect.
It was here that the people, in the olden times, had sacrificed their children to Moloch.
Yea, theysacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils.
So Ireland and America were sacrificed to the fear of British merchants, with the inevitable result that repression brought from both the obvious search for remedy.
Peace was sacrificed to exactly those metaphysical theories of equality and justice which he most deeply abhorred.
To a desire of having the sole government of the Prince's council he "sacrificed what chance there was of a restoration, although upon that all his hopes were built.
Society in general, as well as the annalists of the times, mourned for him, and with him; and many who beheld his doom, would have sacrificed much of their own personal safety to avert the close of that tragic scene.
Why must your life be sacrificed to gratify the bizarre egotism of such a--" He cut short the phrase, fearful of wounding her.
His brother Hernando still languished in prison, and he himself was now to be sacrificed as the principal victim of the fatal ordinances.
After the pacification of the country, he again retired to Arequipa; but, from the querulous tone of his remarks, it would seem he was not fully reinstated in the possessions he had sacrificed by his loyal devotion to government.
He would have sacrificed his life for it at any time; and more than once, by his indiscreet seal, he actually did place his life and the success of his enterprise in jeopardy.
He had sacrificed the chivalrous Balboa just as that officer was opening to him the conquest of Peru, and he would now have quenched the spirit of enterprise, that was taking the same direction, in Pizarro and his associates.
Why, when so many were sacrificed from some vague apprehension of distant danger, was his rival Huascar, together with his younger brother Manco Capac, the two men from whom the conqueror had most to fear, suffered to live?
Yet there's not one of you who hasn't sacrificed Denny to her without a scruple.
The writer had sacrificed the only other persons mentioned--Christina and Nancy--without a scruple, but that curt and silent male it had never occurred to him to sacrifice.
In the extreme case of human sacrifice, it was retained in the form of surrogates--little wooden images, or even actual animals, being sacrificed in lieu of the older victims.
At such times there were those among the passengers who would perhaps gladly have sacrificed a few seconds of the record.
King her father was a priest, so he went into the temple and sacrificed a weasel and a hare.
Bethlem were too important to be sacrificed to the demands of New York.
Captain Lydiard sacrificed his life in his desperate endeavour to rescue a boy from the wreck of the Anson, (pp.
I sacrificed all to my love, and I forced my duty to give place to the ambition of making happy the most gallant and learned person of the age.
Her happy evening was gone, and her dream of simple pleasure had fled with itssacrificed hours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacrificed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
