burnt offering
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of burnt offering
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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In the superb season finale, Kendall is like a burnt offering kindling an unexpected sea of flames.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2019
But this novel is not simply a burnt offering, a Baedeker of dread and decay.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
As though the sheer bulk of that paper would deter me from putting it back in my wallet, and, defeated, I’d simply leave it there for you like a burnt offering on your sticky altar.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010
Angry, because they felt that T. A. T. had publicized their discharge as a sort of burnt offering to disgruntled stockholders, Vidal & Collins saw a chance to square accounts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The holocaust, or whole burnt offering, is so called because the whole victim was consumed with fire, and ascended, as we are told in verse 9, 'with a sweet savour to the Lord.'
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
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