Used in a Sentence

sacrificial

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sacrificial.

Editorial note

While he is serving as the sacrificial pig of Wikileaks, the information is getting out and it's being publicized.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Relating to sacrifice.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sacrificial gathered in one view.

adjective

Relating to sacrifice.

adjective

Used as a sacrifice.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sacrificial.

adjective

Relating to sacrifice.

adjective

Used as a sacrifice.

Example sentences

1

While he is serving as the sacrificial pig of Wikileaks, the information is getting out and it's being publicized.

2

The issue is whether other people are to be regarded as sacrificial animals.

3

The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal.

4

Manage around it - hire a team of your four favourite engineers, plus one sacrificial goat.

5

Yep - you offer up a sacrificial bikeshed/duck for management to meddle with, whilst the important stuff is left alone.

6

To get around this, he would add some sacrificial extra component like a resistor.

7

With a sacrificial layer of containers on the outside to heat-sink?

8

So the connector savers are sacrificial for when you test.

9

I have read elsewhere that Pao might have been a sacrificial lamb - make some changes, get fired, changes stay in place.

10

Keyboards don't have quite the same sacrificial qualities.

11

Must the Christian baker bake a cake with a pentagram and goat head on it and deliver it to the sacrificial altar just because some customer wants one made?

12

Originally named to be used as a sacrificial bargaining chip with the standards board, he was somehow never cut, leaving Kirk Cameron stuck with a Boner for four years.

Quote examples

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Sacrificial or not, you can still write the Monolith as "Service Oriented", just that boundary is the call stack.

2

That was a purely self-sacrificial program to bring "democracy" to people who didn't want it.

3

Sacrificial dilemmas therefore tell us little about utilitarian decision-making".

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Interestingly this kind of progression is mirrored in a previous link today about the "clock like nature" of technology press - nothing > glowing > skeptical > sacrificial.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use sacrificial in a sentence?

While he is serving as the sacrificial pig of Wikileaks, the information is getting out and it's being publicized.

What does sacrificial mean?

Relating to sacrifice.

What part of speech is sacrificial?

sacrificial is commonly used as adjective.