How to Use self-sacrifice in a Sentence

self-sacrifice

noun
  • That’s when Walsh — in a remarkable act of self-sacrifice — flung his body on top of the bomb and absorbed the full force of the explosion.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • Biden’s self-sacrifice was unique in the annals of the presidency.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024
  • And in fields like emergency medicine, an ethos of service and self-sacrifice prevailed.
    — Eyal Press, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Marcus has always been brave, but his bravery here was also an act of self-sacrifice.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, group members tend to tolerate acts of self-sacrifice in order to advance the group’s needs or to remain in good standing with the group.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2023
  • And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • All of them came from hard work, genius, and the self-sacrifice of self-experimentation.
    — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Soon, Clark wrote Jaffe a letter suggesting that Jaffe, in a crowning gesture of artistic self-sacrifice, offer up his own body to be eaten in a restaurant.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • That is, after all, the moral imperative at the heart of this particular form of activism: self-sacrifice in the name of a higher political goal.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
  • Beneath the absurdity of the premise is a depiction of how much self-sacrifice motherhood can require.
    — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • One leaflet explained the value of self-sacrifice more explicitly.
    — Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
  • His return to Russia in 2021 with the knowledge that he would be imprisoned without hope of release marked his shift from political activism to the highest form of self-sacrifice.
    — Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Continuing down this path of self-sacrifice risks damaging your own prospects for success.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The conduct must involve bravery or self-sacrifice to a degree that distinguishes a person from colleagues on the battlefield.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Our ideas about what being a good girlfriend entails are ingrained in ideals around perpetual selflessness and self-sacrifice.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Mar. 2024
  • That an episode about a man sending his son to prison to avoid responsibility himself got twisted into a story about Logan’s wisdom — or self-sacrifice!
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • And yet the town has another history too, of resistance and resilience and heroic acts of self-sacrifice which Wilkerson also relates in his low, frank, warm narration.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement Now, as Betts nears his comeback from a broken hand, the Dodgers could be making another request that tests his capacity for self-sacrifice.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • While short-term fixes like new technologies require less self-sacrifice, treating the symptoms would mean postponing a disaster.
    — Nicole Heimann, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Yet surely to think of artist-mothers as only suffering or silenced simply reinforces self-sacrifice as the measure of motherhood.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The film ends with Deadpool, Vanessa and their friends together, with Wade learning the importance of family and self-sacrifice in a new timeline that may just lend itself to future run-ins with other characters from Marvel comics.
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • Even the wealthy mother, Hope Clinch, cannot control the monstrous possibilities of birth; the intelligent mother, Kath Talent, is broken in her turn by the self-sacrifice required for the preservation of innocence.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Throughout the month Ramadan is celebrated through daily fasting, prayer, charity, focus to God and self-discipline and self-sacrifice.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout the month Ramadan is celebrated through daily fasting, prayer, charity, focus to God and self-discipline and self-sacrifice.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Davis realizing the gravity of the situation and in a final valiant act of complete self-sacrifice, instantly threw himself upon the grenade, absorbing with his body the full and terrific force of the explosion.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Consequently, her nieces revere her as an icon of republican self-sacrifice.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The former is a musical triptych that blends bossa nova influences with blaring synths, further exploring the conflicting feelings of self-preservation and self-sacrifice.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 May 2024
  • The bill prohibited collective bargaining, secondary boycotts and strikes at times of harvest, all of which were used by Chavez and were essential to his nonviolent and self-sacrifice-based protesting principles.
    — Javier Arce, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Affleck and Goggins show each brother’s double emotions: their mutual defenses and self-sacrifice.
    — Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2023
  • That an episode about a man sending his oldest son to prison to avoid responsibility himself got twisted into a story about Logan’s wisdom - or self-sacrifice! - was troubling and fascinating.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'self-sacrifice.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: