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How to use immolation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word immolation? Here are some examples.

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Not that it necessarily has to be a symbol of modernism and innovation that is targeted for immolation.
Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced.
And residual bad feeling about The Scots' immolation of Wetherby in 1314 can only explain so much.
But for those who cannot bear to continue watching the immolation of their country, Abu Samer is often their best bet.
But the idea of sacrifice has been realized in a unique and decisive way in the immolation of Christ on the Cross.
Back then, Labour would not listen, and the Tories became lucky bystanders at the historic immolation of public funds.
Both see morally mandated personal development as a form of self-destruction, an immolation of one's desires and impulses for the sake of something extrinsic to the self.
A ceremony that sometimes appears to be an immolation or sacrifice, celebrated on a primitive altar.
The innocent Lamb was slain on the altar of the Cross, and yet from the immolation of the victim new life burst forth: the power of evil was destroyed by the power of self-sacrificing love.
He supposedly saved one inhabitant from immolation in a kitchen fire and another from having her head crushed by a cinderblock thrown through the window.
Jordan has ratcheted up its air strikes in Syria since IS broadcast video footage in February showing the immolation of a Jordanian pilot captured there.
Willa's immolation in the fire that destroys not only her, but also her husband and his mansion, opens up the possibility of a female household unbeholden to patriarchy.
Mancini spoke of the immolation of the deutsche mark, but it is Italy that now faces immolation at the stake of monetary union to which it is chained.
In the emotionally charged Immolation Scene that concludes the opera, the former Walkyrie calls for her steed, Grane.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was, she judged, another victim ripe for immolation on the altar of her goddessship.
The mystery of love, the immolation of the Holy Victim, was about to begin.
But nobody behaving honestly is fit to be designated for immolation on my part.
She emptied her blackened pieces into the flames, and motioned me to finish the immolation.
The Norse sources are full of tragic examples of immolation.
But figures after all are an inane expression of such an immolation.
That of immolation, you answer, as typifying the grand offering.
Joan also watched the immolation, and she was a little angry at it.
I offer you all the pleasures of life, and you call it immolation.
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