immolate

In Barnhill’s case, a dragon periodically appears to immolate an idyllic town called Stone-in-the-Glen, leaving the villagers reliant on its dragon-hunting mayor to keep the creature at bay.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022

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

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

Speak, then; let me at least know the name of him for whom she thus immolates herself.

From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

"Who will tell me what it is?" said the Count; "who will exhibit it to my eyes? who will show me the phantom which robs me of name and fame, and secretly immolates my honor?"

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

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

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

Consider Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker reacting to the sight of his immolated family as though he’s suppressing a fart; Alec Guinness forcing himself through the motions as Obi Wan; Hayden Christensen in general.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2015

I went almost every day to Karnak, where your ancestress Hena, the Virgin of the Isle of Sen, immolated herself centuries ago, offering her blood as a sacrifice to the gods of Gaul.

From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Eug?ne Sue

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

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

When one of the consuls was immolating the first victim, the head of the liver was wanting.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Titus Livius