Sentences with 'martyr'
Example sentences and phrases with the word martyr and other words derived from it.
• « Although she was soon captured and handed over to the English to be tried and executed as a witch by the Burgundians, Joan of Arc became a martyr to the French cause and, eventually, one of the most important French nationalist symbols. »
• « Fearing that his execution would make him a martyr to the French, the coalition leadership opted to exile Napoleon instead, and he was sent to an estate on the small Mediterranean island of Elba, near his native Corsica. »