How to Use immolation in a Sentence

immolation

noun

• Every time Biden opens his mouth there’s the chance of self-immolation.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
• An activist’s self-immolation stirs questions on faith and protest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• Dear Michelle, This is the writer from last week who talked about self-immolation.
  — The Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• There had been self-immolations in Tunisia before and others since.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• No Götterdämmerung, no immolation scene and no end of the world with fire and flood.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2018
• So newsrooms that are framing stories with these images of mass immolation might just be doing their job.
  — Shareen Joshi, CNN, 2 June 2021
• In the books, there is little that is romantic about Patrick’s self-immolation.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• Adding an involved career to the journey of motherhood can also be an immolation of the heart.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
• That was before his self-immolation began raging out of control, a fire still burning today.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2022
• Murad’s story is one of sacrifice in its purest and most powerful form – an immolation of self for the good of others.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2017
• Sometimes self-immolation is threatened to force the hand of the authorities.
  — Lilia Blaise, New York Times, 9 July 2017
• The report cited a rash of self-immolations by Tibetans to protest the restrictions.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
• The Arab Spring started with food protests, the self-immolation of the vegetable vendor in Tunisia.
  — John H. Richardson, Esquire, 7 July 2015
• At this point in Star’s career, attacking him, as Zamora did with the photo, was an act self-immolation.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 28 Aug. 2018
• And now, in a stunning act of self-immolation, Kanye is teaching that same generation to rise up and speak against their idols, to leave them behind.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 1 May 2018
• The reassuring version is that this was simply a case of reckless self-immolation on the part of Truss and Kwarteng.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Protests mounted, leading to the self-immolation of the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
• Police determined that the person, whose race and gender have not been determined due to extensive burns, died of self-immolation.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• Protests mounted, leading to the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• The beginning of the session for Hell Or Highwater was like a self-immolation of self-loathing.
  — Brian Leak, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2018
• His bargain also involves the burning of his island home—a six-minute take that consummates Tarkovsky’s motif of immolation.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Le Carré wants to say that this act of societal self-surveillance is less navel-gazing than self-immolation, an act that destroys both the watchers and the watched.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
• There are pill bottles on the car floor (Peep was nothing if not honest), a red light bathroom hookup, a giant hot dog, self-immolation, hellfire and a happy ending.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2017
• Aside from the racial unrest, the public looting and the self-immolation, the initial problem was that many people who could afford to leave Avondale started to move out.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The fireball flashed an enormous photograph of the city at the instant of its immolation fixed on the mineral, vegetable and animal surfaces of the city itself.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2020
• Monks have protested the occupation throughout, including by self-immolation – 155 monks have set themselves ablaze in the last decade.
  — Benjamin Hall, Fox News, 28 May 2021
• Advertisement On any one of those issues alone, Mamdani’s campaign could have been in a free fall if not conscripted to a quick and public immolation.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Bernthal survives a gasoline immolation, dynamite explosion and rooftop plummet, not to mention countless gunshots and stab wounds.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 May 2026