burnt offering

Example Sentences

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In the superb season finale, Kendall is like a burnt offering kindling an unexpected sea of flames.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2019

But this novel is not simply a burnt offering, a Baedeker of dread and decay.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017

As though the sheer bulk of that paper would deter me from putting it back in my wallet, and, defeated, I’d simply leave it there for you like a burnt offering on your sticky altar.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, you enlarge on it—positively drape it in visionary attributes, and offer yourself as a sort of burnt offering to it.

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude