How to Use sacrificial lamb in a Sentence

sacrificial lamb

noun

• Venice shouldn’t be used as a sacrificial lamb to make a point.
  — Catherine Bennett, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2023
• The monster on one side, the sacrificial lamb on the other.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 20 Oct. 2017
• Most politicos at the time saw Portune as the sacrificial lamb in that race.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Frank has been fired and re-hired so many times that he’s used to being a sacrificial lamb in the name of the company.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• Sure enough, Geillis is in there with Ian, who’s all trussed up like a sacrificial lamb.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
• At least Nick Saban is nice enough not to run up the score on the sacrificial lambs of college football.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Jews escaped the tenth plague—the killing of firstborn sons in each household—by marking their door posts with the blood of a sacrificial lamb.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• This sacrificial lamb to The Watchdog is not going to enjoy the next few minutes of his life.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
• Looks like Cory and Kyle's team is going to continue to be the sacrificial lamb.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Neither of you wants to leave the soft folds of your bed sheets and perfectly fluffy pillows, but someone has to be the sacrificial lamb.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2020
• Jughead ends the season by giving himself up as a sacrificial lamb to the Ghoulies.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 8 Oct. 2018
• But if this savior is not hired — and on the road recruiting right away — then this recruiting class will be the sacrificial lamb of the decision.
  — Chris Bumbaca, ajc, 25 Nov. 2017
• Ribbs is concerned that Wallace could be a sacrificial lamb, unless the leaders of sport continue to stand with him.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2020
• Wonder Woman 1984 became a Covid victim and a sacrificial lamb to the streaming wars.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• But the 46-year-old father was not a willing martyr or sacrificial lamb for the Democratic Party's idea of justice reform.
  — Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
• All this may further elevate her into a Trumpian figure, a rich sacrificial lamb.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
• Zaniolo could be the sacrificial lamb needed for financial gain, while Mkhitaryan has been linked with a move to Inter, following in Edin Dzeko’s footsteps.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• Utah Democrats opted to sit the Senate race out instead of sending up the traditional sacrificial lamb candidate.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2022
• New stories needed: Critic Joshua Kosman asks: When will opera stop treating women as sacrificial lambs?
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• That could cost the quiet backbench Democrat Jerry McNerney, who might find himself a sacrificial lamb.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• After years of romping over Republican sacrificial lambs in elections, she was confronted in her quest for a sixth straight Senate victory in 2018 by her own restive party.
  — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• So analysts now wonder if perhaps Wagers was a sacrificial lamb.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2019
• Gerri is still in place as a figurehead and potential sacrificial lamb, ready to absorb any nuclear radiation that this war may bring the company’s way.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2021
• But for some, the Ghent Altarpiece’s most haunting attribute may be one only recently revealed by restoration: the alarmingly humanoid face that once adorned the painting’s central sacrificial lamb.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2019
• So, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, who figured to be the sacrificial lamb after the Ravens stumbled through that horrid first half against the Bengals, is still in place and the team reorganized the coaching staff.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Saucedo cautioned that a cartel leader may have authorized the attack then regretted it and decided to offer sacrificial lambs to police.
  — James Pollard, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
• But in fairness, the presidential aspirants who ended up as 2016’s sacrificial lambs were at least in uncharted territory.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024