sacrifice

sacrifice
01. He totally [sacrificed] his marriage and his family for his career, and now he finds himself a very successful, lonely businessman.
02. The Aztecs [sacrificed] people to their gods.
03. She [sacrificed] a lot of her free time growing up in order to do her gymnastics.
04. My parents made a lot of [sacrifices] so I could go to university, and I would like to repay them somehow.
05. They [sacrificed] a goat to celebrate the end of ramadan.
06. He [sacrificed] his life for his country in the war.
07. She [sacrificed] her career in order to stay at home with her children.
08. Nowadays, it seems there are fewer people who are willing to [sacrifice] their lives for their country.
09. The professor [sacrificed] his vacation to finish his book.
10. During the time of the Shang civilization in ancient China, royal burials were often accompanied by human and animal [sacrifices].
11. The people of the village [sacrificed] a pig to the God of rain, asking him to water their crops.
12. Christianity differed from other cults popular in the Middle East at the time in that Christian rituals did not include animal or blood [sacrifices], except in symbolic form.
13. The greatest [sacrifice] a man can make is to give his life for his country.
14. There is a Japanese proverb which observes that you must gain from your opponents without [sacrificing] your own strength.
15. There is a Filipino proverb which notes that there's no glory without [sacrifice].
16. James Matthew Barrie once stated that you can have anything in life if you will [sacrifice] everything else for it.
17. Sylvia Pankhurst once declared that war did not justify the [sacrifice] of a single mother's son.
18. Idi Amin once said that in any country, there must be people who have to die. They are the [sacrifices] any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
19. Guinea pigs were first domesticated by the Incas, who used them for food, in [sacrifices], and as household pets.
20. Market researchers have discovered that the Chinese make enormous [sacrifices] for their one child, particularly if it is a boy.
21. The greatest number of human [sacrifices] in a religious ceremony in history occurred in 1486, when 20,000 people were killed by Aztec priests at the dedication of the Great Temple.
22. Many young women today want long-term relationships with men, but not at the [sacrifice] of their independence.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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