self-sacrificial
- a word derived from self-sacrifice.
Example Sentences
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In the three films, his stout frame, bushy whiskers and weathered visage helped him embody men of authority who faced danger with reluctance, then acceptance and, finally, self-sacrificial stoicism.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
When he joins her in a haze of self-sacrificial glory, his epiphany feels completely unearned.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022
His memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch descending into the darkness of Alzheimer’s, “Elegy for Iris” is not “pitiless,” as Atlas asserts, but self-sacrificial and sympathetic.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2017
Enlightened drivers might choose a general rule of “save me first” but soften it to include more self-sacrificial options in case of mass casualties.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2016
The passion that inspires them is unique, self-sacrificial, immortal only through fruition; doomed to pass and perish in its exaltation.
From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May
