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Example sentences for: martyr

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By the time of Patrick’s death in a.d. 465, the whole country was effectively Christianized — a peaceful process, without a single martyr, which speaks for Patrick’s natural diplomacy as well as his powers of persuasion.
3) China has thereby rid itself of an irksome "martyr" and his influence on the country.
But if Witt is ultimately an ethereal martyr, Welsh turns out to be a Bogart-like romantic who can't stop feeling pain in the face of an absent God.
In a front-page commentary, the paper said it was true that Ocalan has blood on his hands and that the Turkish people want revenge, but it also said that "a dead leader would be immortal as a martyr to the Kurdish cause."
It made her story too readily available to people who wanted to see her as a victim, or a crusader, or a martyr to art.