How to Use immolation in a Sentence

immolation

noun

• The Arab Spring started with food protests, the self-immolation of the vegetable vendor in Tunisia.
  — John H. Richardson, Esquire, 7 July 2015
• Every time Biden opens his mouth there’s the chance of self-immolation.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Dear Michelle, This is the writer from last week who talked about self-immolation.
  — The Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Protests mounted, leading to the self-immolation of the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
• No Götterdämmerung, no immolation scene and no end of the world with fire and flood.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2018
• Oh, and one more note: Ladies — the film does not in any way endorse ritual self-immolation.
  — Rachel Saltz, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The beginning of the session for Hell Or Highwater was like a self-immolation of self-loathing.
  — Brian Leak, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2018
• A month later, a man soaked himself in kerosene, lit himself on fire and used Facebook Live to stream video of his self-immolation.
  — Avi Selk, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Protests mounted, leading to the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• The reassuring version is that this was simply a case of reckless self-immolation on the part of Truss and Kwarteng.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• In the books, there is little that is romantic about Patrick’s self-immolation.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• The report cited a rash of self-immolations by Tibetans to protest the restrictions.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
• Adding an involved career to the journey of motherhood can also be an immolation of the heart.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
• And now, in a stunning act of self-immolation, Kanye is teaching that same generation to rise up and speak against their idols, to leave them behind.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 1 May 2018
• At this point in Star’s career, attacking him, as Zamora did with the photo, was an act self-immolation.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 28 Aug. 2018
• An activist’s self-immolation stirs questions on faith and protest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Murad’s story is one of sacrifice in its purest and most powerful form – an immolation of self for the good of others.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2017
• For me, Season 5 was about the ascent of Claire Underwood and Frank’s secret self-immolation.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 13 July 2017
• If, for once, Trump could be restrained from further Twitter self-immolation, who knew?
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2016
• Sometimes self-immolation is threatened to force the hand of the authorities.
  — Lilia Blaise, New York Times, 9 July 2017
• Aside from the racial unrest, the public looting and the self-immolation, the initial problem was that many people who could afford to leave Avondale started to move out.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Cases of protest by self-immolation continue to make the news, a reminder of the one that set off the initial unrest of the Arab Spring after a fruit seller set himself on fire in 2010 in Tunisia.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• On the same day as Nair's death, 22-year-old Archana died from immolation, according to the complaint lodged with police that only identifies her by one name.
  — Amy Sood, CNN, 31 July 2021
• Le Carré wants to say that this act of societal self-surveillance is less navel-gazing than self-immolation, an act that destroys both the watchers and the watched.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
• So newsrooms that are framing stories with these images of mass immolation might just be doing their job.
  — Shareen Joshi, CNN, 2 June 2021
• The royal couple, wrapping up a three-day visit to Boston, were on hand to award more than $5 million to people with ideas to save the planet, or at least delay its immolation.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• Another note found near his body, which was also emailed to local news outlets, said his self-immolation was a call to action, according to The New York Times.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 15 Apr. 2018
• There are pill bottles on the car floor (Peep was nothing if not honest), a red light bathroom hookup, a giant hot dog, self-immolation, hellfire and a happy ending.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
• That was before his self-immolation began raging out of control, a fire still burning today.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2022
• This follows the immolation of the previous Tory government, that of Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in modern British history.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024