self-sacrificing

Example Sentences

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“Thanks to your self-sacrificing and devoted struggle, the militant fraternity and friendship and invincible alliance between our country and Russia grow firmer,” he said, according to state media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Humanity is a word we use to describe what is supposed to be our essential nature — caring, compassionate, self-sacrificing.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

Dominic Cavendish also praised the rest of the cast "with fine work especially from Sharon Small, as his self-sacrificing wife Jennie Lee" who was also an MP for a number of years.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

Interestingly, in an article Orwell wrote in 1940, he pinpoints the core of this strategy, writing that the manipulator portrays himself as a martyr, a victim, the "self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds."

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2023

The members were fervent, democratic, restless, eager, self-sacrificing.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright