12 example sentences using sacrifice.
Sacrifice used in a sentence
Sacrifice in a sentence as a noun
In fact, it's a major sacrifice for an engineer like that to make.
"I haven't stopped building my future, but I no longer sacrifice the present in order to get there.
"But if you're asking people to make a sacrifice you're not willing to make yourself, you're a bad leader, period.
[1]Isn't it amazing, the lack of sacrifice necessary to make fat stacks of cash writing software?
Essentially, people are happy in the end to sacrifice privacy for convenience.
Anyone who is willing to sacrifice the usefulness of the last 30 years of proprietary tech to make a point has to be a bit barmy.
Sacrifice in a sentence as a verb
But for terrorism, we sacrifice nearly inexhaustible supplies of money and time.
Even when law school was thought of as a golden ticket, it was a lottery, and to win, you had to sacrifice your personal life for a decade before you made partner.
It's like a stomach ache after eating too much candy; things were so good for so long, we collectively forgot what it was like to have to sacrifice and work for the things you want.
If you sacrifice product quality for some notion of engineering perfectionism -- whatever it might be -- you're not doing your job as a professional engineer.
I remember reading this published insight[1] from Marissa Mayer a few months ago:Burnout is caused by resentmentWhich sounded amazing, until this guy who dated a neuroscientist commented[2]:No. Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail.
Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on.
Sacrifice definitions
the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
See also: forfeit forfeiture
personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"
the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
(baseball) an out that advances the base runners
endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"
See also: give
kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
sell at a loss
make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals