How to Use martyrdom in a Sentence

martyrdom

noun

• Of course the martyrdom of those young people 60 years ago helped to change the world.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• Do Black audiences care to face the agony of the boy’s martyrdom?
  — Brandon Wilson, Chron, 20 Oct. 2022
• By the close of this passage, Cyrus seems to have rejected the idea of art martyrdom.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
• Your project, after all, is a means to an end, not a cause that requires martyrdom.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Not much is known about Valentine, other than the date of his martyrdom - Feb. 14.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 14 Feb. 2022
• Both of them do too much—Candy with a smile, Betty with the sourness of martyrdom.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• For many there, Soleimani was a symbol, a folk hero, now enshrined in martyrdom.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2020
• So, in a way, this would be kind of anti-Baroque, anti-martyrdom.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• Heyer was a voice for the disenfranchised, friends say, but no one could push her out of the way of martyrdom.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 1 Sep. 2017
• These images have all the drama of paintings of Catholic martyrdoms.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• But the capital of liberty and culture turned out to be a scene of martyrdom.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• On that day, the white supremacists are said to take the ferry over to commemorate the martyrdom of a hero to their cause.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 31 Dec. 2018
• In the sculpture, he is shown holding the scimitar that killed him in one hand and a palm frond, symbolic of martyrdom, in the other.
  — NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2020
• Instead, she’s used the Aug. 16 contest as a sort of high-profile stage for her martyrdom — and a proving ground for her new crusade.
  — Jonathan Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
• Pre-Islamic kings and the martyrdom of Shiite Imams are among the devices artists have employed.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• These acts of martyrdom buy the rest of the immune system time to prepare a more targeted attack.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2021
• If Fakhrizadeh wanted Iran to build a bomb, his ‘martyrdom’ at the hands of a foreign power will make that outcome far more likely.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 27 Nov. 2020
• There was love, sincerity, and the thirst for martyrdom.
  — Sabawoon Samim, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• As claims to martyrdom go, a troll kicked off Twitter for posting naughty memes sounds not quite on par with the burning of Saint Antipas in ancient Rome.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• In his teens, Conrad fled from the morbid atmosphere of Polish martyrdom to the freedom of England and life at sea.
  — Jeffrey Meyers, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• But not if their only purpose in the plot is virtual martyrdom.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 July 2022
• But there’s a moral aftermath: The missionary found martyrdom, the Sentinelese a new lease on life.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2018
• But his campaign will be largely about himself and his martyrdom for his people.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The suffering became part of her mystique, and in the end it was elevated, by tragedy, into a kind of martyrdom.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• Cardinal Dolan wrote, in a reference to the martyrdom of St. Valentine in the third century.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Martyrdom and denial poured out of the Wild dressing room Friday night after another bitter 2-1 home loss to the Blues.
  — Brian Murphy, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2017
• Yet his martyrdom helped change America for the better.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Not content to tell a success story, Smith sells a martyrdom story.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• The brush with death — a difference of mere centimeters could have turned fatal — has also strengthened Trump’s case of martyrdom.
  — Marisa Schultz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 July 2024
• Most important, the support of a community is necessary for fostering a cult of martyrdom.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024