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Example sentences for "sacrificing"

Lexicographically close words:
sacrificer; sacrificers; sacrifices; sacrificeth; sacrificial; sacrificio; sacrificium; sacrifise; sacriledge; sacrilege
  1. I shall endeavor to point out that the Synthesis forms the ground on which both parties may cooperate, without sacrificing an iota of their respective convictions.

  2. Full of invincible belief in victory, he has bequeathed to the French soldier an imperishable memory which must add to his self-sacrificing spirit and will surely give rise to the noblest emulation.

  3. Do you suppose she would like me better for sacrificing you?

  4. The great charm of your sex is its capability of an ardent self-sacrificing affection, and herein we see its fitness to round and complete the existence of our own.

  5. He never had the least idea of risking or sacrificing anything for that cause, or for any other.

  6. All who entered His service would be expected to maintain their self-sacrificing devotion.

  7. Lepreux, a priest of Notre Dame, engaged in the same practices as La Chappelain, accused of sacrificing the child of La Filastre to the devil.

  8. Alicia judged wrong in thus sacrificing the happiness of Sir Edmund to the pride and injustice of his mother; but her error was that of a noble, self-denying spirit, entitled to respect, even though it cannot claim approbation.

  9. Thus did this amiable woman contrive not only to live in peace, but, without sacrificing her own liberal ideas, to be actually beloved by those amongst whom her lot had been cast, however dissimilar to herself.

  10. She was most excessively attached to Lord Lindore--everybody knew that; but she is convinced of the propriety of preferring the Duke of Altamont, and won't hesitate in sacrificing her own feelings to mine.

  11. Moreover a self-sacrificing love is the form, which is most likely to lead to its being returned.

  12. For it would show, as nothing else could show, that God's love is a self-sacrificing love; and this is the highest form of love.

  13. Yet, so far from having had a bad influence, it has led them to the most noble and self-sacrificing lives.

  14. Knowing of his puissance, the sacrificing gods thought of Vasishtha and made him their priest in imagination.

  15. The celebrated royal sage Saharachitta went to the blessed regions, by sacrificing his dear life for the sake of a Brahmana.

  16. It is all because you seem to fancy I am sacrificing myself to someone and for someone.

  17. I maintain that if the discoveries of Kepler and Newton could not have been made known except by sacrificing the lives of one, a dozen, a hundred, or more men, Newton would have had the right, would indeed have been in duty bound.

  18. I believe Avdotya Romanovna is sacrificing herself generously and imprudently for the sake of.

  19. Has she a secret conscience-prick at sacrificing her daughter to her son?

  20. At that moment the king of Veii happened to be sacrificing in the Temple of Juno, which was in the citadel, and Camillus, with his Romans, were immediately beneath, close enough to hear what he said.

  21. Genoese had introduced, though he stopped short of sacrificing his breadth and richness of tone.

  22. As a composer for the piano Franz Liszt has been accused of sacrificing substantial charm of motive for the creation of the most gigantic technical difficulties, designed for the display of his own skill.

  23. And wherefore did Taxiles, sacrificing to the gods to whom he was not in the habit of sacrificing, send over three thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep as victims?

  24. Indian goods, thus sacrificing those to whom we wished to teach Christianity to those who, at any rate, said they had that faith.

  25. But I cannot afford to lose you now; I cannot bear to see you sacrificing yourself to a chimera.

  26. And yet Edward Arundel felt, in sacrificing these new acquaintances at the Grange to the stern purpose of his life, almost as if he had resigned a second captaincy for Mary's sake.

  27. It depends on what she is--I'm not sacrificing myself on the altar of general unattractiveness.

  28. If they groaned loud enough and long enough they might frighten a poor countryman into sacrificing a hen, or leaving a pound of butter for them.

  29. Men don’t like being sacrificed at the best of times; they don’t even like sacrificing their farm-horses.

  30. It was well enough that he should entertain her, and keep her passive, but Aline would have liked him to be a martyr, sacrificing his own inclination for his sister's good.

  31. Among his tricks of style, if we may call them so, are inversion and elision; by the one he puts the emphasis just where he wishes, by the other he hastens the action without sacrificing the meaning.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacrificing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    altruistic; committed; dedicated; devoted; disinterested; humble; modest; selfless; unpretentious; unselfish