self-immolating

[self-im-uh-ley-ting, self-]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.

Example Sentences

To some, the self-immolating media blitz recast Crowley as willing to speak truth to power and stand up for her troops amid one of the worst urban firestorms in California history.

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It’s crazy — you’re scrolling and you’re laughing at tweets, but then the next tweet will be people self-immolating in response to the genocide of Palestinian people, or the gamut of things at the border.

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He was identified as Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old living in St. Augustine, Fla. who doused himself in a flammable substance and threw pamphlets into the air before self-immolating.

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Over the past three weeks, the once highly anticipated movie has become a spectacle in all the wrong ways, with its director, Olivia Wilde, self-immolating on the publicity trail.

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Even in an oft-sacked city that has seen it all over the centuries, where people have more recently grown accustomed to self-immolating buses, potholes as deep as water wells and myriad other indignities, the garbage — pervasive, pungent and unrelenting — has become the true metric of Rome’s decline.

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