Examples of 'martyr' in a sentence
Meaning of "martyr"
martyr (noun) - a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs
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- One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
- One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
- To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
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You want to be a martyr for the cause.
A dead martyr is worth ten posturing leaders.
The path of the martyr is not easy.
Sorta makes you look like a martyr.
Some obscure martyr in some forgotten province.
You may have just made a martyr.
They are mourning a martyr before the attack.
Philip is more useful to our cause as a martyr.
I will be a martyr for a wealthy family tonight.
So cut off my head and make me a martyr.
He can be a martyr for his own cause.
Let them think you died a martyr.
We can not have a martyr on our hands.
But you have to die to become a martyr.
The blood of the martyr commands you.
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It would be a tragedy if we turned him into a martyr.
She died as a martyr for the cause.
There is more than one way to be a martyr.
Eutychius the martyr showed that he could.
We have one among us who would be a martyr.
Just like the martyr in that picture.
He would have even more power as a martyr.
I was going to martyr myself to save thousands of innocent people.
Tomorrow you make your martyr video.
Only a martyr can get them out.
I am not buying the martyr act kid.
Being a good mother has nothing to do with being a martyr.
Mathews is considered a martyr by some white nationalists.
If we kill him we turn him into a martyr.
Not to mention a martyr with selective amnesia.
They do not want to make a martyr of him.
You are making a martyr of yourself by giving up.
I knew she had to be either stupid or a martyr.
I should make a martyr of you right now.
Because nobody is more beautiful than a martyr.
I do not want to become a martyr to a hopeless cause.
I do not want to turn him into a martyr.
So skip acting the martyr and scram.
The last thing we need is a female martyr.
The poor man is a martyr to his wife.
They could not be so stupid as to make me a martyr.
You do not look like a martyr to insomnia.
You should be proud to be the mother of a martyr.
The question is is it to become a martyr or just to be wasted.
I have never heard of him as a child martyr.
It shrouded oft our martyr would dead.
I have not got the guts to be a martyr.
We know we would have a martyr on our hands if we prosecuted.
Now they got their own martyr.
He can be a martyr to his own cause.
