By contrast, the American cemetery proclaims the terrible sacrifice of war, but also its nobility.

Moloch has come to mean anything demanding terrible sacrifice.

Some things, such as Presidential assassinations, require terrible sacrifices from those who would investigate them.

Bartta's hard heart was wrung out with the terrible sacrifices she had made.

Protestantism had to conquer the right to exist, by terrible sacrifices.

They don't understand the terrible sacrifice that brought about this holiday, he said inwardly.

Besides, it's really not such a terrible sacrifice; they have Sudoku now.

She employs the most terrible sacrifice possible: her own daughter.

And sometimes we are called upon to make terrible sacrifices on dieir behalf.

Secondly, if we balanced the budget tomorrow, we'd drive unemployment up because it would require such terrible sacrifices.