How to Use sacrificial in a Sentence

sacrificial

adjective

• Fire pits found at the site may have once been used for large sacrificial fires.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
• Taylor-Joy’s Sandie is opaque, but in the right way: the sacrificial fetish in a vortex of fear.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• To Black, 33, that's the sound of bravery, hope and a mother's sacrificial love.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 10 May 2018
• The site has 22 stone chambers, stone walls, a sacrificial tablet and drains.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
• Maybe there was a need for a new type of sacrificial victim.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2018
• The priests would dip the goat’s hides in strips into sacrificial blood and then go and gently slap women and crop fields with the bloody hide.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Aztec priests cut open the chests of sacrificial victims and offered their still-beating hearts to the gods.
  — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• These act as sacrificial pawns, much like the seed beetle’s shield eggs.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2011
• Now if Heat want to trade Meyers Leonard, who would be sacrificial pawn this time around?
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• No way New England could pay him $24 million a year when Tom Brady is taking a sacrificial half of that to help the team.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• Do: Pre-chill cooler with sacrificial ice or ice pack—things will stay cold longer.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2020
• The opera, which is in three acts and plays without a break, opens with a sacrificial throat slashing of an Iphigenia.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• When love is the way -- unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive, when love is the way.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 19 May 2018
• That brings us to Option 3, which is some sort of sacrificial firing.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2019
• Still, the bones likely belonged to sacrificial victims, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
• Coolers: Dos and Don’ts Pre-chill cooler with sacrificial ice or ice pack—things will stay cold longer.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2019
• So in 2018 Williams tried planting a massive trap crop of wine caps — a sort of sacrificial offering to the local deer.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
• And why did the Maya take their sacrificial rites underground?
  — Discover Magazine, 10 May 2017
• The use of adam here appears to express the hope that, through the sacrificial service, the individual comes close to God.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• The Dolphins, Marlins and Panthers have done it with sacrificial blueprints through the years.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• Is there a sacrificial structure for antler rubbing that could be built?
  — oregonlive, 30 Jan. 2021
• East of the temple is a sacrificial altar, where ancient Greeks would make offerings to the god.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2020
• The animal was buried in a sacrificial pit outside Wen’s grave, with its head facing the tomb and its tail facing west.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The climax is a punishing sacrificial dance by a woman in a red dress.
  — The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
• Hesiod’s Theogony describes a dispute over which portions of the sacrificial animal should go to men and which to the gods.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
• In them, Aztec priests cut beating hearts from the chests of sacrificial victims before throwing them down the steep steps of pyramids.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
• Science in Poland reports that the 3,500-year-old stone chest, which contains a sacrificial goose, was found at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor.
  — Fox News, 13 Mar. 2020
• But every once in a while, college football’s sacrificial lambs bare their teeth and take a bite out of the standardized script.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2021
• So, season four was the sacrificial season for Gabriel’s hair in order to embrace a new look in the next installment.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
• Particularly in the area of the Ring of Cenotes, many sacrificial cenotes hold skulls of the higher-ranking Maya families.
  — Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024