sacrifice - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • atone: The death of Christ on the cross was the once for all atoning sacrifice.
  • entail: We can have it if we want it, tho it may entail some sacrifices.

Adjective modifier

  • supreme: He said consideration would be given to laying a wreath each year on 23 March to mark Joseph's supreme sacrifice.
  • ultimate: His love of the Faith - of God - led him to make the ultimate sacrifice.
  • heroic: Mr. Letta also said this is a time for the country to honor the heroic sacrifice of Nicola Calipari without divisions and without controversy.
  • human: At first, his priests had gone into an orgy of human sacrifice.
  • bloody: We should remember that the Essenes went so far as to refuse to bring bloody sacrifices at all.

Noun used with modifier

  • salary: How does a pensions only salary sacrifice scheme compare to pensions offered via flexible benefits?
  • ritual: Must also remember to bring a knife to Spinning Jenny that day - ritual sacrifice of cake!
  • Sabbath: We have no way of knowing who the hostile power was in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice.
  • pagan: There, having protected themselves from being forced to do pagan sacrifices, they fell into a miraculous sleep.

Preposition: of

  • atonement: God presented [ Christ ] as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.
  • thanksgiving: Finally, let it be always by the mercies of God that you are moved to present yourselves a sacrifice of thanksgiving to him.
  • praise: And the sacrifices we offer up to God are sacrifices of praise.

Preposition: for

  • sake: He exemplifies the spirit of sacrifice for the sake of Christ that has no public kudos.
  • sin: Nowhere else than here, no time else than now, is there any sacrifice for sin.

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