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
This ceremony is the next principal thing we have after the burnt offering of the animal and of the scalp.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by Grinnell, George Bird
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
