Example Sentences

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She said the school had tried to keep costs down by staff "working sacrificially on very low salaries".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

"The Ecumenical Patriarchy sacrificially offers itself to the service of the Orthodox faithful in Lithuania... This is an exceptional honour for us", he added.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2023

Packiam noted that we can take the money we might have spent on the things we’ve given up — coffee, chocolate, clothes or anything else — and "give sacrificially to those in need."

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2022

They suggest that donor trees purposely and sacrificially send nourishment to others to help them grow and ensure the health of the community.

From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2021

We have seen in the ninth chapter how the Shang dynasty lost the empire, but was sacrificially maintained in Sung.

From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper