How to Use self-sacrifice in a Sentence

self-sacrifice

noun
  • Couples who stay close over the long haul rarely run on pure self-sacrifice.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • What does success look like without self-sacrifice?
    — Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Over time, the silence becomes a cycle of self-sacrifice.
    — Laurie Shakur, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Marcus has always been brave, but his bravery here was also an act of self-sacrifice.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • And in fields like emergency medicine, an ethos of service and self-sacrifice prevailed.
    — Eyal Press, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Biden’s self-sacrifice was unique in the annals of the presidency.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024
  • All of them came from hard work, genius, and the self-sacrifice of self-experimentation.
    — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Continuing down this path of self-sacrifice risks damaging your own prospects for success.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Meyer’s stroke of genius was to make her lead vampire an avatar of self-sacrifice and bodily temperance.
    — Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
  • One leaflet explained the value of self-sacrifice more explicitly.
    — Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
  • That’s when Walsh — in a remarkable act of self-sacrifice — flung his body on top of the bomb and absorbed the full force of the explosion.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • The highest form of charity as defined by the Apostle Paul is to give in a spirit of self-sacrifice.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • As a result, group members tend to tolerate acts of self-sacrifice in order to advance the group’s needs or to remain in good standing with the group.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2023
  • Tradwives have resurrected the female submission part of the blueprint, but not the male self-sacrifice part.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • Consequently, her nieces revere her as an icon of republican self-sacrifice.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Beneath the absurdity of the premise is a depiction of how much self-sacrifice motherhood can require.
    — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Our ideas about what being a good girlfriend entails are ingrained in ideals around perpetual selflessness and self-sacrifice.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Finally, remember that leadership is an act of service, but service doesn’t mean self-sacrifice.
    — Aaron Marcum, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
  • Wilson told Newsweek that there's a narrative that motherhood involves self-sacrifice.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • Work culture, tennis or otherwise, rewards busyness and often self-sacrifice, which conflicts with self-care and mental health.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That’s a huge win for Donald, who gets to coast on the good optics of self-sacrifice and restitution for his family’s generational crimes.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • While short-term fixes like new technologies require less self-sacrifice, treating the symptoms would mean postponing a disaster.
    — Nicole Heimann, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But when care becomes compulsion, and when support turns into self-sacrifice, the relationship begins to lose balance.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • In John Brown’s case, as with the iconic figure of Uncle Tom, self-sacrifice was the way to God’s throne.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The conduct must involve bravery or self-sacrifice to a degree that distinguishes a person from colleagues on the battlefield.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Yet surely to think of artist-mothers as only suffering or silenced simply reinforces self-sacrifice as the measure of motherhood.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Growth comes from mutual accountability, not self-sacrifice.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That an episode about a man sending his son to prison to avoid responsibility himself got twisted into a story about Logan’s wisdom — or self-sacrifice!
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • Another reason is that jihadi ideology fosters a culture of self-sacrifice.
    — Thomas Hegghammer, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Parenthood has demanded a level of commitment and self-sacrifice from me that, in any other context, would be considered pathological.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

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