Sample Sentences for
martyr
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    He says that, perhaps, in this class there is a future priest or a martyr for the Faith,  (source)
    martyr = someone who suffers for the sake of principle -- especially someone killed for refusing to renounce their religion
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    She was patient—a martyr, indeed but she forebore to pray for enemies, lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.  (source)
    martyr = someone who suffers to uphold principles
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    The head of the first match flew off and stuck to Phyllis's finger; but, as Roberta said, it was only a little burn, and she might have had to be a Roman martyr and be burned whole if she had happened to live in the days when those things were fashionable.  (source)
    martyr = someone who suffers for the sake of principle
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    If a martyr was needed, I'd be that too.†  (source)
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    The dead men had become martyrs and their degradation was forgotten.  (source)
    martyrs = someone admired for dying or suffering to uphold principles
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    Maybe he'd been hallucinating, or his martyrdom fantasies had gotten the better of him.†  (source)
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    Yes sir, Mrs. Perkins, that J. Grimes Everett is a martyred saint,  (source)
    martyred = someone who suffered for the sake of principle
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    Then he continued less vehemently: 'The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms.†  (source)
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    Despis'd, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!†  (source)
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    Juno, Thus hath your ire our lineage all fordo* *undone, ruined Save only me, and wretched Palamon, That Theseus martyreth in prison.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She martyreth" in older English, today we say "She martyrs."
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    She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise.†  (source)
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    Or perhaps she's one of those, Pile it on, I can take it, a martyr.†  (source)
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    I trembled with excess of agitation as I said this; there was a frenzy in my manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed.  (source)
    martyrs = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
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