Example sentences for: martyrs

How can you use “martyrs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After taking their passports, Abu Basir arranged for Hamlan and Nami to meet Bin Ladin and instructed them to use the following phrase to express their desire to become martyrs:"I want to be one of this religion's bricks and glorify this religion."

  • Now the practice has its own martyrs: a "triple"--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.

  • A monument to 26 Christian martyrs executed in 1597 (at the beginning of Japan’s repression of Catholicism) includes a small museum displaying relics, including a communion wafer that has survived in dehydrated form since the 17th century.

  • Accompanying articles explore other Masada-related confusions: Josephus' text is ambiguous about where the martyrs actually fell, and the site itself was probably a center of political administration rather than a civilian refuge.

  • In the nave, the church’s famous Byzantine mosaics show, on the left, Ravenna’s fortified port of Classis, from which a procession of 22 virgins follows the three Magi with gifts for Jesus on his mother’s lap; on the right, from Theodoric’s palace, 26 male martyrs march towards Christ.


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