Example sentences for: sacrificing

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

  • On the other hand, if people care about the pecking order, you and your neighbor can get involved in a costly and futile "arms race," sacrificing valuable leisure in your mutually frustrating efforts to be the top earner on the block.

  • She believes the Net will allow "those who want freedom [to] be able to work on their own terms without sacrificing as much as they must today."

  • It's also true that the earth might get destroyed by an asteroid in 10 years, in which case all our sacrificing for future generations will look like a big mistake.

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).

  • Some--including, in recent days, the Republican nominee himself--are drumming up scandal in such a biased and hypocritical way that they risk sacrificing both their credibility and their dignity for the sake of a lost cause.


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