"sacrifice" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- According to Thomas, the man who claimed to be a cook had been employed to entice William into the house where the sacrifice would occur.
- The sacrifice either occurred in the cave or the body was put there afterwards.
- Julius Eggeling, writing in 1900, could not imagine that actual human sacrifices occurred.
- And often the sacrifice that does actually occur seems to be anticlimactic.
- After the drawing is over and the person is picked, the slips are allowed to fly off into the wind, after which the human sacrifice occurs.
- The Book of Rites states the sacrifice should occur on the "longest day" on a round-mound altar.
- Most archaeologists accept that some sacrifices did occur.
- One of the towers near where these sacrifices occurred is still called the Kali tower.
- This sacrifice occurred rito humano, which may mean "with the rite appropriate for human sacrifice".
- Such sacrifice does indeed occur - the hazards faced by a lineman restoring power during a storm come to mind.
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