Burned ceremonially

Usage examples of immolated.

Below banks of panicked clouds, smoke chimneyed from immolated cities and billowed from tracts of firestormed evergreen forests.

The Israelis, surrounded by countries that had every reason to see the Jewish state immolated, had elevated paranoia to an art form, and national security to an obsession.

The plasma from the immolated straws pounded inward towards the second reservoir of lithium compounds.

The after-action debriefs showed that the camp guards had been immolated in moments.

All of the internal organs had either been immolated or simply pulled down by gravity.

He didn't know that the first salvo had inadvertently immolated the command bunker for the radar complex.

Nothgrin wheeled toward the immolated creatures, to see two more join them, bursting into flame like dry sticks.

It immolated the demon where he stood, and those around it were blasted from their feet, falling like hot coals in the snow.

The front rows of demons were immolated, reduced to no more than ash in an instant, while others struggled to pull out their weapons, to ready their own spells, to flee the field.

Then there were the passenger transports - including several shallow bowl-shaped Ithorian herd ships - crammed with displaced beings from conquered or immolated worlds, also in search of some planet to call home, even temporarily.

All three units performed perfectly, though when the command/destruct signal was sent to the third unit, it emitted a curl of black, acrid smoke and what sounded like a little high-pitched cry as its circuits immolated themselves.

Lieutenant Newman, ten of his Marines, and a Navy medical corpsman rushed to the scene, and despite a fiercely burning fuel-fed fire, the lieutenant had personally rescued four of the helicopter's injured occupants before they could be immolated in the wreckage.

Secretive, suspicious and often miserably lonely, the wanderers of the night, as my Master called them, were often ill prepared for immortality and made nothing of their existence but a string of dreary disasters until despair consumed them and they immolated themselves through some ghastly bonfire, or by going into the light of the sun.

Armand, who in his devotion to the Crucified Christ had immolated himself at this very Church door!