Example Sentences

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It would have been a lot to ask that Simkhovitch, idealistic and self-sacrificing, predict that immigrant poverty and its housing conditions would be ameliorated with time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

The HPG said it "does not take actions frequently as a principle", but occasionally carried out "self-sacrificing" acts that served as "warnings and messages" to the Turkish government.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

Many in town say he is just as self-sacrificing a spirit.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

Interestingly, in an article Orwell wrote in 1940, he pinpoints the core of this strategy, writing that the manipulator portrays himself as a martyr, a victim, the "self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds."

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2023

The members were fervent, democratic, restless, eager, self-sacrificing.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright