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ultimate sacrifice

n. death, especially for a cause or for one's country

Usage examples of "ultimate sacrifice".

That ultimate sacrifice was certainly preferable to being enslaved by the Germans, For him there were no decisions to be made, no village to return to, no friends to search for.

It was an old story, a common one in Haiti, a beautiful girl lured into the clutches of the houngan, a white hen being fattened and pampered in readiness for the ultimate sacrifice.

He believed he understood why his mother was willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice to get him to the shores of America.

I want everybody to know I'm alive and well, and that no act of ultimate sacrifice took place here today, so I guess you can start retracting all the nice things you've been saying about me and I can go back to being a slut or a whore or whatever else you thought I was yesterday.

Especially one cluster of unsuspecting algae -- a few million -- who've been targeted for a special fate, to make the ultimate sacrifice.

However, Azra had not defined the ultimate sacrifice sought by all who truly believed.

And as proof of their allegiance and knowledge that they owed their existence to him, Earth-Man made the ultimate sacrifice - specially selected members of their own tribe.

Then they'd set her to weaving, making her own garments for her ultimate sacrifice.

A number of candidates are preparing themselves to offer the ultimate sacrifice if we are called upon to free another machine-dominated world.

There was no doubting his love for her, though, as he made the ultimate sacrifice in coming to save her.