Martyr in a sentence

Definition of Martyr

• The martyr was now free, and her tormentor was forced to quit the house a beggar.
• He lasted only three days and expired peacefully, a martyr to his sacred calling.
• His was the face of a Christian martyr relinquishing life for a good but hopeless cause.
• Fraud that I am, I have the honor; he, the martyr to his loyalty, has the shame.
• In Earl Thomas (1467) the Irish saw the first "foreigner" to be the martyr of their cause.
• But she had not expected to enter the arena with him and defend the martyr thrown to the wild beast of marital savagery.
• Elected thereupon to succeed a martyr as bishop, he crowned an episcopate of twenty-five years with a similar martyrdom.
• Cynthy was a saint, a martyr to religious feeling, a medieval nun in her ascetic eschewing of the pleasures of life.
• The lad had a sharp tussle with himself, and at last started back up the hill with the feelings of a most unwilling martyr going to the stake.
• The modern martyr of the Pankhurst type courts the absurdity without making the suffering strong enough to eclipse the absurdity.
• Then he would have been the martyr of penitence, and that very day he would have been with Christ in Paradise.
• It ought to have cured me of my passion for poetry; but it only confirmed it, for I felt the spirit of a martyr rising within me.
• The faith of a martyr the tragedy showed, As he trod the last stage; as he trod the last stage.

• She was not created to be a martyr to her faith.
• He was a martyr to conjugal love!
• His death was that of a martyr of charity.
• Fred smiled about as comfortably as a martyr on the grid.
• The husband of a woman with the martyr complex.
• Lizaveta Ivanovna was the martyr of the household.
• And make you out the martyr Stephen.
• There was no end to the fun which that poor martyr had to put up with.
• Feisul would rather be a martyr than succeed at his proper business.
• One of the boating men made a martyr of himself and took the mother.
• Bob took the banjo with the air of a martyr and tuned it skilfully.
• Forgive me, martyr to another's cause!
• Every martyr for the truth was a torch bearer, whose light was extinguished.
• In the ivy's paler blaze the martyr oak stands mute.
• She was regarded throughout the South as a martyr to its cause.
• The Third Age Of The Martyr Church.
• Every drop of blood of a Christian martyr is a stone in the work.
• The First Age Of The Martyr Church.
• The Second Age Of The Martyr Church.
• And bright with many an angel, And all the martyr throng.
• Si leurs lances me tuent, je meurs en martyr pour la vraie foi.
• Mr O'Connell is at last the martyr of his own success.
• So for the Nationalists of Bengal he became a martyr and a hero.
• Some authorities still insist that the Martyr Spy was hanged in this park.
• No one knew the spirit of the martyr more thoroughly than St. Paul.
• The martyrdom of the holy and glorious first Martyr and Apostle Thecla.
• Was he grander in death--a sublimer martyr than Bruno?