Example Sentences

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Now captain, Gill ensured that if England are to get the result they want from this summer's contest they will have sacrificed an inch from their height in doing so.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

But many of them will have sacrificed an eye or a limb, or will have received wounds which will prevent their engaging in their previous occupations.

From A School History of the Great War by Gerson, Armand Jacques

And even if we did go to throw sugar to Cerberus, your father would step in and inherit your debts, and you will have sacrificed us both in vain.

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Zangwill, Louis

If, after our union, he should cease to love me, will he not reproach me with what he will have sacrificed for my sake?

From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The overgrown infant will have sacrificed his claim for coddling, but that will not prove that there was never a time when he needed it.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates