Example sentences for: self-immolation

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

  • Almost as soon as he was elected, Yates attempted self-immolation by voting against the McCarran Act, which placed McCarthyite restrictions on visitors to the United States.

  • When Claire Bloom was 19, Charlie Chaplin recognized that her preposterous inexperience and eagerness to please made her the perfect actress to star opposite him in Limelight as Theresa, "an ideal of pre-Victorian self-immolation."

  • The papers report on street riots and several cases of protesters' self-immolation resulting in serious burn injuries.

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.

  • It would be an act of self-immolation.


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