self-sacrificing
Example Sentences
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It would have been a lot to ask that Simkhovitch, idealistic and self-sacrificing, predict that immigrant poverty and its housing conditions would be ameliorated with time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
The HPG said it "does not take actions frequently as a principle", but occasionally carried out "self-sacrificing" acts that served as "warnings and messages" to the Turkish government.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
Even cynical moviegoers hardened by the rigidity of formula in so many other animated features will be hard-pressed not to root for self-sacrificing, determined and warm-circuited Roz.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024
He achieves his downfall through a willingness to sell out the memory of the woman he loved if it meant the public would see him as a self-sacrificing protagonist.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2023
They were probably the self-sacrificing group, like the women at church socials who said, “No, you take the chicken breast. I’m just fine with the neck and gizzard, really.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
