Example Sentences

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He draws on it now self-sacrificingly, though it kills him, but it is still there in him to be drawn on.

From Time • Sep. 16, 2013

Not that he minded making the offer anywhere; but she, self-sacrificingly, might refuse; and a crowded street was not the place where he could tackle a refusal of the throne to advantage.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

But a sincere promise to pray for a cause carries with it the sincere purpose to work and to give self-sacrificingly.

From Health, Healing, and Faith by Conwell, Russell H.

The ladies regarded my clumsiness with motherly forbearance, and self-sacrificingly tried to direct my wayward feet.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

Considering the fact that he did not wish to go, he was self-sacrificingly energetic.

From Running Sands by Kauffman, Reginald Wright