self-slaughter

How to use self-slaughter in a sentence

• To her the plague was better than self-slaughter, as self-slaughter was better than pollution.

  The Proud Prince | Justin Huntly McCarthy

• Perhaps he meditated breaking that instinctive canon which the Most High has so wisely fixed against "self-slaughter."

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 | Various

• Even fever gives a man at least a week's grace, and sudden death generally implied self-slaughter.

  Life's Handicap | Rudyard Kipling

• Wealth, too, may become an incitement to self-slaughter from sheer disgust.

  Unicorns | James Huneker

• No imaginable crisis in his affairs could have convinced him to self-slaughter.

  The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes