How to Use immolate in a Sentence

immolate

verb

• My search for cans less likely to immolate me and poison the environment bore that out.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2021
• Everyone knew his name, out of proportion to any achievements in his short and self-immolating days as a pitcher.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 22 May 2018
• Really feels like this guy wants to immolatehimself and everybody around him.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 16 June 2009
• For instance, in Atlanta a man self- immolated in front of the Israeli embassy.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• Earlier, the police did not register a case until the victim tried to immolate herself.
  — Shivam Vij, Quartz India, 25 Sep. 2019
• Whose career never immolated in a dumpster fire of corruption or ego like that of too many of her Eastside colleagues.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• This is how hip-hop, the black intellectual scene, and our leadership eroded to the point of self-immolating lunacy.
  — T.d. Williams, The Root, 26 Apr. 2018
• One is the Viking-style funeral for gang leader Ice, whose corpse is immolated astride his motorcycle.
  — Helaine Williams, arkansasonline.com, 10 Aug. 2024
• Overstock’s Byrne is another CEO who seems to have self-immolated.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• The songs are silhouettes for a vocalist to customize, invest in and, in some of the best outcomes, eventually immolate.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• What’s left is to watch the fireworks as Chastain and Isaac immolate one another, and those are indeed spectacular.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
• Closer Kenley Jansen watched from the bullpen on Monday as Kelly self-immolated.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• There are other legal advisors who have similarly immolated their careers on his behalf.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
• Exotic financial instruments like the ones that helped ignite the housing crash tend to immolate themselves, while vaccines have proved good medicine for the coronavirus.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
• One senior source told Fox News that investigators were not certain if the suspect intended to self-immolate himself.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2024
• The heat melted the gantry into a heap, and the flames immolated all 21 workers at the site, leaving nothing but teeth for medical examiners to identify the bodies.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
• The incident came weeks after a 78-year-old man died after self-immolating near the Japanese Embassy, also in protest of Tokyo.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• The case grabbed attention in April 2018 when the girl tried to immolate herself outside the state chief minister’s home to protest police inaction on her rape complaint.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• Except as the focus on the radar gun intensified, Jansen immolated on the mound in a game the Dodgers eventually lost, 8-7, in 15 innings.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• But what survives most of all is the film’s utter ruthlessness—its lack of compunction about immolating an elevator full of partygoers or bumping off its most sympathetic character in a fiery final stretch.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
• While the end of his relationship with Nicki Minaj and a self-immolating squabble with Drake curdled his rise, Mill remains a legitimate rap star.
  — Ben Detrick, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2017
• The Air Force won't confirm the number of warheads in the missiles, but each can hold a maximum of three; every warhead can immolate 65 square miles within minutes of detonation.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2011
• The album is front-loaded with familiar ruminations on immolating love, bubbling infatuations and shifting identities.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The willingness to self-immolate, often in isolation, under heavy surveillance, and with no expectation of immediate results, foreshadows how far Tibetans may be prepared to go to challenge Chinese rule.
  — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
• Saddam’s regime had destroyed almost all its WMD programs in the early 1990s but continued for a decade longer to give every indication of having kept much of them, immolating itself in the process.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• For days, the conservative universe had been self-immolating over a series of extremely negative stories about McMaster in Breitbart, Bannon’s former organ.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 17 Aug. 2017
• Before swaths of the city immolated, the Democratic mayor of an overwhelmingly Democratic city was widely expected to sail into a second term with no serious opponents in the 2026 election.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
• But other candidates self-immolated spectacularly and regularly.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• In The Disappearing City, Wright’s 1932 treatise on his ideal metropolis, the architect tried to immolate the concept of the industrial city on a pyre of adjectives.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021