How to Use self-preservation in a Sentence

self-preservation

noun

• What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs?
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
• The boy in the story has developed some crafty means of self-preservation.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• There’s a self-preservation in there somewhere, a bit of resilience.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 May 2023
• There’s no judgment here on those who need to step away from soul-crushing updates in the name of self-preservation.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Therefore, for the sake of self-preservation, the Middle colonies and South Carolina chose the lesser of two evils.
  — Time, 3 July 2023
• About the importance of setting boundaries for the sake of self-preservation?
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Kenneth is a 38-year-old who’s led a very small, isolated life out of self-preservation.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Sometimes not speaking out can be an act of self-preservation.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• But by 2021, leaving it had seemed a necessary form of self-preservation.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Of resourceful self-preservation for the sake of self-preservation alone.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2023
• Her will—and maybe her capacity for self-preservation—had waned.
  — Amory Rowe Salem and Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 9 Jan. 2024
• But the hobby that started as a matter of self-preservation was becoming a side hustle.
  — Liza Weisstuch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The self-preservation factor can’t be ignored and the fear of the unknown are hurdles to moving immediately to a nine-game SEC slate.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2023
• For Cook, the decision to end new music releases on PC was almost an act of self-preservation.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 10 May 2024
• What real or invented term could be used to describe this extreme form of self-preservation?
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Mar. 2023
• Makers of new drugs or medical implants, such as hips or pacemakers, are speed averse out of self-preservation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2013
• Instead, for most of their predators, spiders are a safe snack — a tame and tasty treat — rather than a threat, forcing spiders to follow some pretty strange strategies for self-preservation.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• Congress should pass it on the basis of self-preservation alone; the justices lately have seemed all too happy to take over increasing shares of the other branches’ powers.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024
• There is beauty in surrendering to new rhythms in a new season of life, to choosing self-preservation over self-interest.
  — Carola Lovering, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
• Pedestrians scurried away with the typical aloofness New Yorkers adopt as a means of self-preservation.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Many China watchers speculated that the death of the news conference could be an attempt at self-preservation by the current premier, Li Qiang.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• People, in my view, reinforce their personal hypocrisy out of self-preservation.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• Sending The Right Message During a recession, marketing investments and self-preservation aren’t the only things brands should have top of mind.
  — Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Toeing the line between authenticity and self-preservation, Mock takes us through her dating woes, roommate drama, and the glitz of being a rising star.
  — Brea Baker, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
• Then, maybe just maybe, the Los Angeles schools would have stayed loyal, Oregon and Washington wouldn’t have needed to seek self-preservation in the midwest, and the realignment dominoes wouldn’t have followed.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• Since defensive attitudes are acts of self-preservation, creating a space where your employees feel safe enough to let their guard down is vital.
  — Eugene Dilan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• People are focused on self-preservation and not principle.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Out of sympathy — and self-preservation — Paul lends Hartnett his replica, but soon begins to suspect there may be something going on between his co-pilot and his wife (Kate Mara).
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Not even out of self-preservation has humanity yet shown a willingness to eat fewer animals.
  — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024