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So did the supporters in the gym, but Mr. Sandico did not want to immolate them prematurely.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016

Often the famous will immolate all on their own with one ill-considered remark or tweet.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2015

Holt, now 56, is being called in to smooth over a crisis again, because no one at NBC imagined Williams' career at the network would immolate the way it did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2015

Then her eyes flash with a look that could almost immolate you, and she gives you a tongue lashing that stings for days.

From MSNBC ● Feb. 11, 2015

It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Social media runs on the righteous anger such betrayals can activate and, along with its more toxic cousins, that anger immolates most attempts at nuance.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Hoping that she can learn the Fireman's secret to Dragonscale before she immolates or has her baby, Harper sets out into the New England forest with her rescuer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2016

She immolates herself for the suffering one, cares for him and saves him, then lays down her own life.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long

Immolā′tion, act of immolating: a sacrifice; Imm′olator, one who immolates or offers sacrifice.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Before he can grow feeble and die he immolates himself willingly on his own altar; and a younger and a stronger than he receives his spirit.

From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen

Bankman-Fried’s personal fortune has been immolated over only a few days of turmoil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

My love of all things charred, blackened, browned and otherwise immolated runs deep.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2022

Am I hopeful, as a believer who prays Smith will rise, stronger and wiser, from the ashes of everything he immolated Sunday night?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2022

Much more than just a micro-budget car film, Pit Stop is a devastating portrait of the empty shell that’s left behind when every last remnant of human connection is immolated at the altar of winning.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2020

On the throne of immolated love He has founded a kingdom that will never end.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

She was spicy without immolating her targets, respectful without feeling phony or fawning.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

It can feel both misty and assertive, partly because of the way his effects pedals create something hot and threatening, as if he’s immolating his own notes as soon as they arrive.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2018

We have to find a way of standing up for our principles without immolating ourselves in front of everybody.”

From Time ● Sep. 24, 2013

As a result, the practice of sati – or widows immolating themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres – was abolished in Goa 200 years before the British banned it in the rest of India.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2011

Yet for the sake of that daughter, whose gaze she shunned, she was about to step down into flames far fiercer than those of Tophet, silently immolating all that remained of her life.

From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans