martyrize

Example Sentences

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South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.

She felt too sore and too sick for the aid that comes veiled with inscrutable symbolism, and seems to martyrize when it seeks to save.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)