Example sentences for: sacrificial

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

  • Recognizing that the only way in was with the blessing of the regular organization, he got it in 1948, when he was allowed to run for Congress as a sacrificial lamb.

  • Above her underground palace, inside a sacrificial hall, is a wax museum showing Cixi in full regalia as Goddess of Mercy (her favorite Buddhist deity).

  • In the second room, sacrificial objects unearthed in ancient tombs are shown alongside pots, a plow, and armor.

  • The palace sat at the top of the hill, its west court housing sacrificial slab and magazines for storage of ritual liquids and libations as seen in other Minoan palaces.

  • Paul Berman seems to suggest in "The Refractory Ones" that the case of Timothy McVeigh is somehow analogous to the trial of Sacco-Vanzetti, in that a misunderstood radical faction was descended upon by a bigoted majority that then executed the sacrificial lambs.


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