SACRIFICIAL


Meaning of SACRIFICIAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

lamb

One sacrificial lamb has been offered.

Needless to say it has so far proved difficult to find any sacrificial lambs among the building trade.

From his self-proclaimed position as guardian of the rightwing flock, he has become a sacrificial lamb .

victim

And the sacrificial victim is yourself.

He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim .

And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim , was the body.

In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim .

Yet again, housing is the main sacrificial victim .

They were in the middle of a hideous ritual, and they were the sacrificial victims .

Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim ?

Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sacrificial victim

And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim , was the body.

And the sacrificial victim is yourself.

He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim .

In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim .

Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim ?

Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim .

They were in the middle of a hideous ritual, and they were the sacrificial victims .

Yet again, housing is the main sacrificial victim .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After all, work, particularly mule-hard labor, is, like motherhood, a sacrificial virtue.

Alice set the torch down on the sacrificial slab.

And the sacrificial victim is yourself.

Both partners grew up believing that parenting does not require sacrificial motherhood.

She demanded strict ritual performances from them, a proper place to live, sacrificial objects and so on.

So where were these sacrificial adopted broods coming from?

There isn't much you can do about this other than vengefully shoot up the sacrificial unit in your following turn.

Would she take pleasure in sacrificial murder?

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