The word "sacrificing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. For example, "He was willing to sacrifice his time to help his friend move."
Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, warned of the "dire consequences" in sacrificing the right to privacy in an impassioned speech on Friday as Barack Obama sought to repair a deep rift with the technology industry.
When police found them, they said they were sacrificing their victim to become proxies of a thing called the Slenderman, a tall, dark-suited, blank-faced myth.
YouTube helps extend a campaign's reach to lighter TV viewers without sacrificing much frequency for heavy TV viewers.
Arguably Colombia's most beautiful city, Cartagena combines striking colonial architecture and a vibrant cultural life without sacrificing reality: streets are still buzzing with locals and you can find yourself spending longer than expected people-watching in a coffee shop or just sitting in a square admiring the orange and yellow houses.
Snowden said in Hong Kong that he was sacrificing himself in order to save the world from a system like this one, which is "constrained only by policy documents".
Up a man, Chicago found themselves on the wrong end of an increasingly open game, with Vermes's final changes sacrificing yet another man at the back to pursue a point that should have been out of reach.
In a wide-ranging interview aired on Greek TV, Tsipras rejected suggestions that his government had any intention of sacrificing the politician.
The dialogue and ideas that I hear from the government benches have been based purely on budgets, not innovation, ideas and creativity; sacrificing the latter for the former is fundamentally short-sighted.
"It's like, thank god we got rid of the Muslim Brotherhood, we're not a jihadist Islamist republic, and we would do whatever it takes [to keep the Brotherhood from power], even if that means sacrificing a few liberties," explained Bassem Youssef, a famed television satirist who was investigated under Morsi and whose show was cancelled during the Sisi era.
Insects such as ants or honeybees are almost certainly not neurologically advanced enough to feel emotions such as empathy but are extremely altruistic, regularly sacrificing themselves for the sake of their colony.
Now seems a good time to reconsider why we do what we do with our surnames: in the wake of last year's Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, a custom that depends on a gender-normative idea of marriage – a woman automatically sacrificing her name to take that of a man – is starting to look more outdated than ever.
