How to Use altruistic in a Sentence

altruistic

adjective
  • More than one-third expect to see a more altruistic world emerge.
    — Kelley Swing, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2021
  • If one of the buyers was altruistic, that kind of thing could happen.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Agape is a form of selfless, altruistic love that puts one’s partner’s needs above one’s own.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Of the great altruistic idea of communism there is not a trace to be found in this party.
    — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • Irsay first got hooked on baseball cards, though with less than altruistic motives.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • So a little bit of this is very important, even for the most altruistic leaders of all time.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • To some extent, there might be an altruistic component to it.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Some studies find that women in general tend to be more altruistic than men.
    — Holly Corbett, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Why does a question so sensible, so altruistic, feel so strange?
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • So why not start some new holiday traditions that are both fun and altruistic?
    — Martha Shade, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Yasmin was surprised at the amount of joy this altruistic decision brought her.
    — Edikan Umoh, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Could this be one more test of humanity versus greed — to see what his altruistic brother will do with all of that cash?
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
  • But what seemed like altruistic acts by large lenders meant to keep the banking system afloat have turned into big wins for some of the world’s largest banks.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But the program is not solely altruistic.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Scholars have long studied and questioned why humans evolved to be altruistic.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Mills should be remembered for her kindness as well as her final altruistic act, her sister said.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Rita left no doubt that Madigan did not often rule the House based on altruistic goals.
    — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • But as the process becomes less rooted in emotion, the mindset has become less altruistic.
    — Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Therefore, those who score high on this trait tend to be altruistic and community-minded.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Those last two weren’t merely altruistic add-ons but were deemed important to win voter approval.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • So the things that people who are psychopathic have too little of, people who are very altruistic have more of.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Next, equally important, is that the research needs to be of an altruistic nature.
    — Payal Dhar, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Yet cases where death row inmates have been allowed to become altruistic organ donors are few and far between.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • This isn’t purely an altruistic move, Ellingham said.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Shooting the final scenes, Brosnan was in full altruistic mode.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The appeal isn’t just altruistic.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But the spinoff caused some to view its activities as not entirely altruistic.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 23 Mar. 2026
  • But with that altruistic gesture from her husband, Kaiser’s love of painting was reawakened.
    — Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But the case for using Hunt more this season isn’t completely altruistic.
    — cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Did the dog rescue the person for an altruistic reason, or did the assistance come from a place of self-interest?
    — Claire Cameron, Outside Online, 3 Feb. 2025

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