: sacrifice of oneself or one's interest for others or for a cause or ideal
Examples of self-sacrifice in a Sentence
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Hannah’s Children stresses religious belief, self-sacrifice, and a willingness to be open to the workings of providence — all out of fashion today.—Peter Skerry, National Review, 18 Apr. 2024 All of them came from hard work, genius, and the self-sacrifice of self-experimentation.—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024 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 Yet what is becoming clearer is that some sort of primitive collectivity — and, with it, organized self-sacrifices by living things — went on for possibly billions of years before multicellular life arose.—Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024 Floria, less inclined to self-sacrifice, disagrees.—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024 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 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 Continuing down this path of self-sacrifice risks damaging your own prospects for success.—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
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