Examples of immolation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Speakers described a Buddhist tradition of self-immolation as self sacrifice. — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022 The death of a climate activist by self-immolation outside of the Supreme Court raises questions, debate over hopelessness and grief about climate change. — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2022 Delusional might be more accurate, given the company’s previous immolation. — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022 His father, as well as others who knew the 50-year-old from Boulder, Colo., suggested that Bruce’s self-immolation, which coincided with Earth Day, was a protest of climate change. — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022 Bayern’s relentlessness in the last 10 years has come to be explained, then, by its ability to control its taste for self-immolation. — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022 For the first hour of this game, the only story was Kansas’ implosion, its Self-immolation, its utter panic against a North Carolina team that was supposed to be too injured and out of gas to make a go of it here. — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022 Better to commit to the couple's implicit philosophy, a life perched precariously between safety and self-immolation. — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022 His act of self-immolation sparks widespread protests. — CNN, 30 Jan. 2022 See More

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