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29 example sentences for MARTYR, such as:
1. In fact, a martyr to his family.
2. There is something of the martyr about her.
3. It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
4. A simple plaque marks the spot where the martyr died.
5. She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
2. There is something of the martyr about her.
3. It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
4. A simple plaque marks the spot where the martyr died.
5. She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
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Meanings and Examples of MARTYR
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martyr
n. one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
v. kill as a martyr
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 In fact, a martyr to his family.
2 You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater.
3 Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.
4 "Yes, I'm a perfect martyr to it," said the lady.
5 "St. Clare always laughs when I make the least allusion to my ill health," said Marie, with the voice of a suffering martyr.
6 The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic.
7 And let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind.
8 Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
9 There is something of the martyr about her.
10 It's perfectly maddening to think of those lovely limes, sighed Amy, with the air of a martyr.
11 Amy spoke bitterly, and turned her back on the exasperating martyr at her feet.
12 Whether this romantic martyr to superstition and the melancholy mummer he had conversed with under the full moon were one and the same person remained as yet a problem.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
13 Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.
14 She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to him.
15 This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in "Uncle Tom," came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.
Example Sentence:
1 She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
2 It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
3 The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
4 A simple plaque marks the spot where the martyr died.
5 For common people, the most important thing about a martyr is they're dead.
6 Pope Francis beatified 124 early Korean martyrs on Saturday at a mass in Seoul in which he urged people in affluent societies to listen to "the cry of the poor" among them.
7 Men have lost their reason in nothig so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.