seppuku
Example Sentences
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So, I commit first-date seppuku and tell him about my lens and my vision loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
“I loved it. But it’d be committing theatrical seppuku to transfer it,” a theater critic mutters to another at the show’s after party.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Cicadas have a much higher-stakes conundrum when it comes to their sort of reproductive seppuku: they die shortly after mating, offering themselves up in order to ensure the continuation of the next generation.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021
It sounds as if she would gladly commit seppuku, if only that didn’t require the sin of cultural appropriation: “I am wholly sorry for the pain and anger I caused you,” she wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2016
This view of mental physiology once admitted, the syllogism of seppuku is easy to construct.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
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