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
Few understood that better than Catherine O’Hara, who played one of cinema’s most self-sacrificing moms – and several of its least.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 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
Many in town say he is just as self-sacrificing a spirit.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
The members were fervent, democratic, restless, eager, self-sacrificing.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
