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The Mysore masala dosa, as you’d expect, comes densely packed with a turmeric-tinted potato filling ignited with a chile-garlic chutney that threatens to immolate the dish.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2017

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2016

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

But I'm yere to remark I never runs up on a gent who goes plumb mad with sadness ontil I sees Crawfish that day Jack Moore immolates his bull-snake pets.

From Wolfville by Alfred Henry Lewis

Behold how she immolates herself upon the altar of friendship!

From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz

While Kriemhilde's fierce hatred immolates both herself and a great dynasty on the altar of revenge, in Gudrun we celebrate the victory of self-abnegation, patience, and peace, and the reconciliation of two mighty dynasties.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

And “Nothing Compares,” which debuted at Sundance, is bringing O’Connor’s story to a generation of viewers who weren’t yet alive when she immolated her career at 30 Rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

Still, to avoid the possibility of the spread of disease, any deer that occasionally swim onto the island are killed and immolated.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016

Taste and see that this is Christ, the Lord Who of old became like us for us and Who, having once offered Himself as an offering to His Father, is forever immolated, sanctifying communicants.

From Orthodox Daily Prayers by Anonymous

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

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

She defies the gods, falls in love with a heroic dragon-slayer and ultimately redeems the world through love before immolating herself.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

Yes, Emma Stone, Ms. Miller’s immediate predecessor in the role, was sensational, an immolating fireball of neurosis and vanity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2015

And Henry later told us, 'God only knows what His Holiness thought, seeing the American Secretary of Defense immolating himself, and the entire American party applauding the fact.'

From Time ● Feb. 4, 2010

Next they stooped down, and drank a little water from the spring; then, immolating to God the sacrifice of praise, passed the night watching.

From The Hermits by Charles Kingsley