sacrificial

Example Sentences

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“I cringed at being a sacrificial pawn in their game of relationship chess,” Davis writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

She intended them “to cement her status as a sacrificial figure in the image of Socrates,” Ms. Stalnaker writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Some will see him now as a victim, a sacrificial lamb, a man who had the bravery to speak up about the problems the club faced and who got driven out because of it.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

She was also prone to self-pity, calling herself “a sacrificial lamb.”

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

As she placed the sacrificial parts upon a blazing altar, the earth rumbled and quaked beneath their feet and from afar dogs howled through the darkness.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton