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Widower Reg Harris, 85, said giving up driving would "absolutely crucify" his lifestyle.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

She added that she felt like “everybody’s trying to crucify me” for her relationship with Combs and that she needed to “take a break and focus on what’s important” when the allegations came down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

And to explain his reasoning, Biden used this phrase: “Never crucify yourself on a small cross.”

From Slate ● May 24, 2021

“We’re behind him 100 percent. Y’all be trying to crucify him and that ain’t right,” Leary said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2019

“He does even worse things than crucify people,” Oscar tells us one time.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

I was born for the purpose that crucifies your mind,

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

James Glickson New York City It is sacrificial slaughter when society crucifies its best leaders on a cross of impossibly high standards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who is it crucifies her love of pretty clothes, her desire for good things, her longing for pleasure that we may have all these?

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The play dealt with woman—with the new woman who has grown so old in the last twenty years—with the woman whose past is a cross upon which she crucifies both herself and the public.

From Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

And the fact is, he follows desire when he crucifies it.

From Happiness and Marriage by Elizabeth Towne

Peter Moody's daughter Joanne Moody, 48, who is expected to join other families wronged by Bush in the court's public gallery, said: "It's broke me, it's crucified me. He has shown no remorse. No sympathy."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The crucified Christ has been taken down from the cross, but there is no cross, no ladder—only a single cloud and a tiny sliver of earth to ground the composition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

"It's the very beginning of Baroque painting, depicting a crucified Christ, isolated, luminous and standing out vividly against a dark and threatening sky," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

“I have been convicted and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

Behind the college was a massive brownstone armory, and a block away, across the street, was a Catholic church with a huge cross on its lawn upon which was the crucified figure of Jesus.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

Outside the conference, protest organiser Caroline Graham told the BBC that the government's current policies were "crucifying" farmers.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

“It was the most crucifying pain,” Mr. Nadery recalled.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021

“The open/close strategy is crucifying businesses,” Michael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2021

“Instead of out-casting and almost crucifying a personality, you say: ‘Okay, this guy is different, let’s act a certain way, let’s not treat him like a Roger Federer or like a Marin Cilic.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021

The letter to the editor crucifying her husband had hurt her terribly.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger