Example Sentences

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The company has been sacrificing profits to build its digital business as more consumers read electronic books.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 5, 2012

The automaker also has been sacrificing margins for sales in China.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 10, 2011

Sopel has been sacrificing his body all season - he was fourth on the team with 120 blocks during the regular season.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2010

That’s just what I’ve been doing to my own dear noble brother, who has been sacrificing himself that he might help poor Julia and her little ones.

From Amos Huntingdon by Wilson, Theodore P.

England has been sacrificing her sons and her daughters to the devil of covetousness of late years, just as much as our forefathers offered theirs to the devil of selfish and cowardly superstition.

From Twenty-Five Village Sermons by Kingsley, Charles