How to Use self-sacrifice in a Sentence

self-sacrifice

noun

• That’s when Walsh — in a remarkable act of self-sacrifice — flung his body on top of the bomb and absorbed the full force of the explosion.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• And in fields like emergency medicine, an ethos of service and self-sacrifice prevailed.
  — Eyal Press, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• As a result, group members tend to tolerate acts of self-sacrifice in order to advance the group’s needs or to remain in good standing with the group.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2023
• All of them came from hard work, genius, and the self-sacrifice of self-experimentation.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• That is, after all, the moral imperative at the heart of this particular form of activism: self-sacrifice in the name of a higher political goal.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
• One leaflet explained the value of self-sacrifice more explicitly.
  — Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• Continuing down this path of self-sacrifice risks damaging your own prospects for success.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
• The conduct must involve bravery or self-sacrifice to a degree that distinguishes a person from colleagues on the battlefield.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Our ideas about what being a good girlfriend entails are ingrained in ideals around perpetual selflessness and self-sacrifice.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Mar. 2024
• That an episode about a man sending his son to prison to avoid responsibility himself got twisted into a story about Logan’s wisdom — or self-sacrifice!
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• And yet the town has another history too, of resistance and resilience and heroic acts of self-sacrifice which Wilkerson also relates in his low, frank, warm narration.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• While short-term fixes like new technologies require less self-sacrifice, treating the symptoms would mean postponing a disaster.
  — Nicole Heimann, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Yet surely to think of artist-mothers as only suffering or silenced simply reinforces self-sacrifice as the measure of motherhood.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Throughout the month Ramadan is celebrated through daily fasting, prayer, charity, focus to God and self-discipline and self-sacrifice.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
• Davis realizing the gravity of the situation and in a final valiant act of complete self-sacrifice, instantly threw himself upon the grenade, absorbing with his body the full and terrific force of the explosion.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The former is a musical triptych that blends bossa nova influences with blaring synths, further exploring the conflicting feelings of self-preservation and self-sacrifice.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 May 2024
• The bill prohibited collective bargaining, secondary boycotts and strikes at times of harvest, all of which were used by Chavez and were essential to his nonviolent and self-sacrifice-based protesting principles.
  — Javier Arce, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Affleck and Goggins show each brother’s double emotions: their mutual defenses and self-sacrifice.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2023
• That an episode about a man sending his oldest son to prison to avoid responsibility himself got twisted into a story about Logan’s wisdom - or self-sacrifice! - was troubling and fascinating.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• Medical systems encourage and exploit a culture of self-sacrifice, and workloads are unsustainable.
  — Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, STAT, 24 Aug. 2023
• Yet what is becoming clearer is that some sort of primitive collectivity — and, with it, organized self-sacrifices by living things — went on for possibly billions of years before multicellular life arose.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Another reason is that jihadi ideology fosters a culture of self-sacrifice.
  — Thomas Hegghammer, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
• The airport skirmish was a sign of things to come: Russia consistently underestimated its opponent, and everyday Ukrainians continually surprised everyone but themselves with their adaptability and willingness to self-sacrifice.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
• In Latine culture, motherly self-sacrifice is rooted in marianismo and familismo, an ideology that values dedication, commitment, and loyalty to family.
  — Maria Matta, refinery29.com, 26 Sep. 2023
• Psychologists such as Meaghan Rice see toxic femininity as the inverse of toxic masculinity – a constellation of characteristics like meekness, emotionalism, passivity and self-sacrifice.
  — Karrin Vasby Anderson, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Managers who routinely expect self-sacrifice negatively influence organizational culture.
  — Constance Dierickx, Forbes, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024