They suffer for a cause

Usage examples of martyrs.

Right Hand of God martyrs we put through the routine had lasted more than fifteen minutes real time, but they had been flesh and blood warriors, fanatically brave in their own arena but totally unversed in virtual techniques.

Right Hand of God martyrs will therefore tend to fight and go on fighting within a very narrow band of techniques.

He keeps those strange paintings of tortured martyrs, martyrs with the sign of the cross sliced into their chests.

Somehow, I think this killer believes hes making these boys martyrs, saving them from something.

Barenna, whose face would have graced one of the very earliest of the martyrs, sat with folded hands waiting until the storm should pass.

I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors.

For the moment, they all took their naps, sleeping the sleep of the just, the sleep of the Holy Martyrs yet to be.