immolate

How To Use immolate In A Sentence

• immolate the valuables at the temple
• In a superb essay also published in Making and Meaning Timothy Anglin Burgard recounts Lobdell's experience, in April of 1945, of entering a barn in Gardelegen, Germany where Nazi troops had immolated more than 1,000 concentration camp internees. John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy"
• There was one young couple who, in the process of being immolated, died embracing one another.
• Clarke joked about that yesterday in tickling the ribs of a critic who had once reported his 'inexorable slide into irrelevance', a beautiful phrase immolated in the post-win victory exchanges. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• During the Vietnam War, Buddhist monks were active in efforts to bring hostilities to a close, and many of them immolated themselves publicly to protest the war.
• He would immolate himself for their noble cause.
• The same day the commune applauds the deputies of a section, which "in warm terms" denounce before it the tardiness of justice and declare to it that the people will "immolate" the prisoners in their prisons (Moniteur, Nov. 10, 1793, Narrative of Pétion). The French Revolution - Volume 2
• A 71-year-old Californian who immolated himself to protest what he called cruelty in the United States and India was cremated Saturday according to Hindu rituals, his friends said. The Seattle Times
• The markets don't believe it is credible for countries to immolate their economies simply to meet the pact's doctrinaire terms.
• It is one and the same Lord who is immolated on the altar and honored in the tabernacle, and who pours out his blessings from the tabernacle. Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: "Concerning the Central Placement and Noble Design of Tabernacles..."