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Sentence Examples The truth is, he saw a last, desperate chance to transform himself from goat to martyr and he took it. If the Russians kill me, I'm a shahid, a martyr who goes immediately to heaven. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing and was adopted by the trades unionists as a martyr marking their struggle through turbulent times. It is true that authorities feared he was a potential leader of a millennial revolt and they treated him leniently lest he become a martyr. She played the martyr and said she'd be quiet from now on, just like she'd promised before. I realise that he likes the tortured martyr parts in which he valiantly combats the treacherous world that seeks to subdue him. This direct approach is far healthier than acting like a martyr or shouting the odds. But worst of all the judge's ruling makes a martyr out of a thoroughly unreliable journalist. In Old Saint Paul's, a quiet, cut-off space for fallen soldiers, it was unsurprising she thought of a martyr. That point about balance is interesting because Christine writes about having a co-partner rather than a martyr. Over time, this element of her story is lost, and she is increasingly configured as a highly feminized martyr. Past historians evaluated him either as a secret papist who corrupted the church or as the martyr of true Anglicanism. Now the attempt is being made to present him as a political statesman and martyr. If you kill an opposition candidate, you create a martyr, with a groundswell of indignation on which his successor can ride into office. St Stephen is also known as the protomartyr, the first martyr who imitates most closely the death of Jesus. Five thousand admirers marched in his funeral procession and Poole became a martyr for anti-immigrant nativists. You can say he is dispensable to some extent, and in fact the death sentence on a man like him has actually turned him into a martyr. John Rogers, the first martyr, was a lecturer in divinity at St Paul's Cathedral, London. From her wasted and emaciated appearance, we may fairly infer, she also fell a martyr to this destructive and poisonous liquid. Both warrior and martyr alike join forces in the town and attempt to keep the peace. Show More Sentences He was shot dead in open court, an early martyr in the struggle against obscurantism. His feet are several inches from the ground, as if he were levitating like a saint or martyr ascending to heaven. The Anzac soldier is cast as martyr, but at no point does the commentary become maudlin. He did an atrocious act and he got what he wanted, lots of publicity for his cause and the right to die a martyr. Well, being a snitch or an informant does not make you martyr or mean that you are really copping out. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to martyr sport as the cradle for world diplomacy. She began to believe that the suffragette cause needed an actual martyr to bring it the publicity it needed. Mira rejected the official history that viewed her mother as a traitor, preferring instead to cast her as a martyr to the partisan cause. That, my guidebook tells me, is the one colour you really should not wear because it is associated with the enemy of the holy martyr. Even as he suffers and dies he maintains his single-minded devotion to freedom, and in death he becomes a powerful martyr to the Scottish cause. But an anti-Mormon mob killed him that year, creating a martyr to the new faith. Those who love to play the martyr submerge their own personalities. They devote a lifetime to unnecessary servitude and privation. I did say it would curtail my daytime internet surfing, adopting the air of a martyr to the communal good. Or would she be left alone or converted as a martyr to the cause of achieving a work-family balance? The rumour then said that the failed registration was planned in order to make the leader look like a martyr and win the sympathy of the people. Instead, she becomes a martyr and as she does so we start to lose sympathy. Suzie knows from experience that being a martyr to the workplace is an addiction, and she helps people break out of it. Striking the martyr pose is good public relations because it distracts attention from the real issues. Or do I play the martyr, fake genuine happiness, and stay because it's the best for our sons but not for me? It is a martyr to mildew however and I have found it grows best in damp soil with shade for at least part of the day. Show More Sentences You have the right to martyr yourself if you like, but NO ONE has the right to martyr their children! Youth in particular long for something they can throw themselves into with the passion of a martyr. Suicidal Terror's only possible victory lies in the pointless self-murder of its last happy martyr. Some parents put their children first in order to play the martyr. The great Sikh martyr Baba Deep Singh laid down his life in revenge. Don't continue to martyr yourself for an absent ex. Going out of your way to make him look good when he's a horrible father isn't doing anyone any favors. Was the majority leader a martyr for his party, felled by the revolution he led? Exemplary as this Irish martyr may be, the priest is unable to identify him because he does not feature in the standard martyrology of Irish nationalism. Many parts of this ceremony evolved from much older, even ancient, rituals conducted for those facing imminent death, the gravely ill as well the criminal or the martyr. There is every evidence to say that he altered it in order to get better sales of the aquatint, because that was the image of him as a martyr that was already popular. Emily, the mother is a martyr to migraine, which causes her to withdraw to her bedroom, her husband is frequently absent, pleading pressure of work. He was accused of threatening a nightwatchman with a pistol and was acclaimed as a martyr when he maintained his innocence, refusing to name the true culprit. Rep. Buck McKeon, the House Armed Services Committee chairman, cast Cantor as a martyr for his party. Macmillan is a martyr to his gallstones and lumbago, and whenever possible he prefers to spend the morning in bed, devouring classic works of 18 th-century political history. I didn't want to wallow in self-pity or martyr myself on stage. Ever since he first stood upright, man has been a martyr to his back. Becoming a mother shouldn't mean being a martyr to pain but it often does. One who resolves to give his life for God if called upon has the merit of an actual martyr, since God considers a good intention as an accomplished deed. Do not martyr yourself, as you will only be resented for doing so! All of the children will benefit from the role model of a mother who takes her own needs seriously. But I always thought that story had kind of a martyr complex. Show More Sentences I use the word advisedly because the word martyr means witness. Our second and third generations ' respect for the patriotic martyrs was thus manifested in the warm affection shown for the crippled grandson of the martyr. His ex-wife, Andrea, re-enters Tyrone's life, bringing with her a proposal to write a book about Sierra, his daughter and a martyr of the movement. He preaches his message with characteristic urgency, casting himself as a duty-bound martyr. Mr. Brown, who owned a china shop in Michigan, was a martyr to headaches. With a little luck, you could become the first transsexual martyr! Gildas calls Alban a martyr of Verulamium but says he crossed the river Thames prior to his execution, during the persecution of Diocletian. In actual fact, although identified with the British martyr he was locally known as Albinus. A martyrium was a building erected on a spot with particular significance, often over the burial of a martyr. Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it. While in the Tower he was regarded as a political martyr, and visited by all the Whig leaders. This one, Murder in the Cathedral, concerning the death of the martyr, Thomas Becket, was more under Eliot's control. The decision is hailed as victory in the region where Sunderland greengrocer Steve Thoburn was the first metric martyr. She has told the child that her father was a shaheed, a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception. A Protestant martyr, his life and death are recorded in John Foxe's famous book of martyrs. From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr. Although Becket had not been popular while he was alive, in death he was declared a martyr by the local monks. Gregory's paternal grandmother, Leocadia, descended from Vettius Epagatus, the illustrious martyr of Lyons. Having no desire to make James a martyr, William, Prince of Orange, let him escape on 23 December. Having no desire to make James a martyr, the Prince of Orange let him escape on 23 December. Show More Sentences He immediately removed any doubts about Zwingli's orthodoxy and defended him as a prophet and a martyr. No martyr is in the list, since the Office and the Mass are for Confessors. There can be no certainty, however, that the martyr referred to is actually Saint Alban. Metric martyr Janet Devers, a stall holder at Ridley Road Market in Hackney, northeast London, was convicted for using the imperial system earlier this month. Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted. Revered by high Tories who considered him a saintly martyr, he was condemned by Whig historians, such as Samuel Rawson Gardiner, who thought him duplicitous and delusional. In 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral, by followers of King Henry II and was quickly canonised as a martyr for the faith. The first martyr to die on a mission to kill Salman Rushdie. In 1456, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. In 155, the Smyrnans demanded Polycarp's execution, and he died a martyr. In 2015, it was reported that Williams had written a play called Shakeshafte, about a meeting between William Shakespeare and Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest and martyr. Spokesman to Tahir-ul-Qadri narrated a person who has killed one human is in-fact an assassinator of the entire human race, such a person cannot be termed as a martyr. Like Steve Thoburn, the metric martyr, she was a true champion. Mugabe would play to the gallery of international opinion, flourishing the martyr card, and several African nations would no doubt boycott London. This walk through the lanes of rural Lancashire is a spiritual pilgrimage to the Lancashire Martyr, Saint Edmund Arrowsmith. It survived until 869, when the Vikings defeated the East Anglians in battle and their king, Edmund the Martyr, was killed. Weston Martyr, a British yachtsman, conceived the idea of the race after having competed in Bermudan yacht races. Most of what is known about the life of Justin Martyr comes from his own writings. Note the difference in spelling between the village of St Lawrence and its church, which is dedicated to the Roman Martyr Laurence. Notable early Fathers include Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria and Origen. Show More Sentences Her fine speech was reported to the historian Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in Valladolid within a fortnight. Corfe Castle in 978 saw the murder of King Edward the Martyr, whose body was taken first to Wareham and then to Shaftesbury. Neil Herron, of the Metric Martyr Defence Fund, vowed the fight would continue to the House of Lords. Thomas the Martyr and that the money be returned to John for the expenses of his journey. Hughes and Plath dated and then were married at St George the Martyr Holborn, on 16 June 1956, four months after they had first met. He became a warden of his parish church, St Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London, and a life member of the Society of King Charles the Martyr. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian held the letters of Paul to be on par with the Hebrew Scriptures as being divinely inspired, yet others rejected him. The Phoenix and the Turtle, printed in Robert Chester's 1601 Love's Martyr, mourns the deaths of the legendary phoenix and his lover, the faithful turtle dove. Under Edward I and Edward II, pennons bearing the Cross of Saint George were carried, along with those of Saint Edmund the Martyr and Saint Edward the Confessor. Examples from Classical Literature This fragment contains a bas-relief representing the execution of a martyr. He was the first martyr to Aurelian's petulancy, being beheaded on the 22d of December, in the same year. When Mr. Hammond did come down to breakfast his manner was that of a martyr. In him we may behold the difference between the end of a martyr and a persecutor. She is a martyr to hay fever, and has to fly from London to the sea early in May to escape. Where he might have appeared a martyr, he chose to stand as a quibbling casuist. For with the acceptance of the hierarchic ideas the prestige of their martyr grew day by day. It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone. For to Leonora Gwynn he seemed a persecuted martyr, with all a soldier's valor and a saint's impeccability. I found it in this cell, after the death of the martyr, and have preserved it as a relic. Playing the lonely martyr, too, wasn't much fun with this mischief working inside of him and swelling his lungs like barm. It was the head of a tragedienne or a martyr, and the lean, rather beautiful body was eloquent of life. The story of sakura Sogoro, who fell a martyr to the cause of oppressed peasants, has become a classic. The Lincolnian droop in his great, sad, mournful mouth accentuated the resemblance to the martyr president. But it is not too much to say that the unanimous feeling of educated India went with Mr. tilak and regarded him as a martyr. After he was hanged they cut down this true martyr, and stripping him, slashed him open in order to disembowel him. Monday 23d November, day of St Clement, pope and martyr, and others in the martyrology. The Lamb of God, the doe-eyed martyr to vicarious atonement, vanished, and in his place stood a virile battler for human rights. She had beheld the Virgin, she was the chosen one, the martyr. A martyrology, a calendar with a martyr for each day of the year. Show More Sentences Bastian, in short, was quite a martyr in the cause of nematode anatomy. It was there that the first British martyr, Saint Alban, was killed. As none of them seemed looking for any one, he did not accost them, but eyed each new batch with the air of a martyr. Martyrdoms were represented on the stage, the martyr being the buffoon. He writhed and wriggled under the infliction, but, fully convinced of my skill, endured the pain like a martyr. After the role of deliverer, that of martyr was not to be despised. Spinoza was a voluntary martyr in the cause of free thought. Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body. This was, indeed, a bad failure, for this animal would now be dubbed a martyr, and would take his place among the saints of the Roman calendar. Even the most sincere and single-minded martyr has an eye on that halo. Some say he was a Husain Syed, others that he was a Pathn, and a martyr. The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic. It was as if a martyr, a hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength in the transit. At bottom he is simply a martyr who has followed the wrong track. Meir of Rothenburg was a poet and martyr as well as a profound scholar. He was an unprotesting martyr to the low suspicions of his family. It is a plaster cast of the martyr Geronimo in the agony of death. Marzouki posthumously awarded martyr Chawki Ben Khelifa the insignia of the Order of the Republic and the Military Medal. The whole world celebrated the quincentenary of his martyr death. A High Sheriff of Herefordshire, he was a Lollard, who was executed for his beliefs and for allegedly plotting against the King, and was regarded by some as a martyr. Show More Sentences The poor woman who had killed herself was dragged out of her grave and paraded on thousands of reams of paper as a martyr and a victim to Daylight's ferocious brutality. Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy. Bartholomew and the Executioner with the knife to fulfil the martyr. In those few instances in the martyr acts when sacrificial language is employed, there is almost no mention of its expiatory or purificatory function. Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period. Peter Martyr gives corroborative evidence that Vespucci assisted the Portuguese cartographer. Thus Justin Martyr speaks of his appearance as ignoble and uncomely. Eulogizing the bravery of Martyr Assayer Abba, Rehman said that the brave soldier has saved the country from a great catastrophe and the country is proud of her heroes. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of martyr? Words that rhyme with martyr What is the past tense of martyr? What is the plural of martyr? What is the adverb for martyr? What is the adjective for martyr? What is the noun for martyr? Translations for martyr Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Marty marts marton martlet Martinmas martin luther martyrdom martyrdoms martyred martyrium martyrological martyrologist 6-letter Words Starting With m ma mar mart marty