How to Use immolate in a Sentence

immolate

verb
  • Just a bunch of guys trying not to immolate themselves.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018
  • My search for cans less likely to immolate me and poison the environment bore that out.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Everyone knew his name, out of proportion to any achievements in his short and self-immolating days as a pitcher.
    — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 22 May 2018
  • Except as the focus on the radar gun intensified, Jansen immolated on the mound in a game the Dodgers eventually lost, 8-7, in 15 innings.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Closer Kenley Jansen watched from the bullpen on Monday as Kelly self-immolated.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • The case grabbed attention in April 2018 when the girl tried to immolate herself outside the state chief minister’s home to protest police inaction on her rape complaint.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • What’s left is to watch the fireworks as Chastain and Isaac immolate one another, and those are indeed spectacular.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Whose career never immolated in a dumpster fire of corruption or ego like that of too many of her Eastside colleagues.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Overstock’s Byrne is another CEO who seems to have self-immolated.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The incident came weeks after a 78-year-old man died after self-immolating near the Japanese Embassy, also in protest of Tokyo.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • One is the Viking-style funeral for gang leader Ice, whose corpse is immolated astride his motorcycle.
    — Helaine Williams, arkansasonline.com, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Earlier, the police did not register a case until the victim tried to immolate herself.
    — Shivam Vij, Quartz India, 25 Sep. 2019
  • This is how hip-hop, the black intellectual scene, and our leadership eroded to the point of self-immolating lunacy.
    — T.d. Williams, The Root, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The heat melted the gantry into a heap, and the flames immolated all 21 workers at the site, leaving nothing but teeth for medical examiners to identify the bodies.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2019
  • The Air Force won't confirm the number of warheads in the missiles, but each can hold a maximum of three; every warhead can immolate 65 square miles within minutes of detonation.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2011
  • Exotic financial instruments like the ones that helped ignite the housing crash tend to immolate themselves, while vaccines have proved good medicine for the coronavirus.
    — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Really feels like this guy wants to immolatehimself and everybody around him.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 16 June 2009
  • The wind had kicked up suddenly and unexpectedly, causing him to immolate.
    — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Saddam’s regime had destroyed almost all its WMD programs in the early 1990s but continued for a decade longer to give every indication of having kept much of them, immolating itself in the process.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • While the end of his relationship with Nicki Minaj and a self-immolating squabble with Drake curdled his rise, Mill remains a legitimate rap star.
    — Ben Detrick, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2017
  • In The Disappearing City, Wright’s 1932 treatise on his ideal metropolis, the architect tried to immolate the concept of the industrial city on a pyre of adjectives.
    — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
  • One candidate is immolating himself in a vivid fashion.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 Oct. 2016
  • But what survives most of all is the film’s utter ruthlessness—its lack of compunction about immolating an elevator full of partygoers or bumping off its most sympathetic character in a fiery final stretch.
    — The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • There are other legal advisors who have similarly immolated their careers on his behalf.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • For days, the conservative universe had been self-immolating over a series of extremely negative stories about McMaster in Breitbart, Bannon’s former organ.
    — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The album is front-loaded with familiar ruminations on immolating love, bubbling infatuations and shifting identities.
    — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But other candidates self-immolated spectacularly and regularly.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020

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