Examples of seppuku in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Luckily, the Japanese have a passion for history, with their television full of splendid period dramas and anime depictions of ancient stories, complete with passionate love affairs, betrayals, murder plots and seppuku, ritual suicides. — Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Way of the Shogun," 9 July 2020 Not apology, not suspension — only ritual electronic seppuku would suffice? — Kyle Smith, National Review, "‘Grow Up’ vs. ‘Me Too’," 9 Mar. 2020 Yet the past week has shown that Trump is, in fact, serious about trying to commit superpower seppuku. — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, "The Trump-Putin meeting reveals how Trump is killing American power.," 16 July 2018 Westworld was still able to get away wit broad clichés, like the defeated samurai committing seppuku and the awe-inspiring sight of Mount Fuji, because the idea is that this whole plotline was cooked up by Lee Sizemore, hack supreme. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "Westworld: From Cradle to Grave," 28 May 2018

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