How to Use self-examination in a Sentence

self-examination

noun
  • Some time spent in self-examination could yield new insights.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Ladies, check this as your reminder to do the self-examination in the shower.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 3 July 2024
  • This will help in being able to detect changes during breast self-examinations.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But Travis Scott isn’t an artist known for deep self-examination either.
    — Hazlitt, 23 Aug. 2023
  • It's not been easy and has taken significant work and self-examination.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • Hopefully, this conversation will be a wakeup call for your friend and prompt her to do some self-examination.
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • This 2-1 defeat is a blow and should prove a moment for self-examination for the club’s coaching staff and playing squad.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • With Scorpio season in full force, this time of the year encourages us to do deep self-examination to face our shadow sides.
    — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
  • That kind of deep self-examination requires patience, courage, and more often than not, discomfort.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The shift from institutional blame to self-examination is where the film found its real subject.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Deep self-examination doesn’t always come easy to hard-charging CEOs.
    — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Febos makes this kind of self-examination universal.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, much of our technology is designed to distract us from, or worse, replace this loop of self-examination and improvement.
    — Arianna Huffington, Time, 29 June 2026
  • Readers will be most moved by Liu’s humility in his constant learning of the craft of social protest and his many moral self-examinations.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the current administration has chosen to hack away at budgets rather than do the hard work of self-examination and improvement.
    — Steven R. Furlanetto, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Women should regularly perform a self-examination to look and feel for any changes or symptoms related to breast cancer.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Discipline and self-examination are the cornerstones of Kipchoge’s approach both to sport and life.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a lot of self-examination in this season in particular about Dave’s relationship to his fans.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The immediate reward for undertaking this kind of hard self-examination would mainly be shame and regret.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • His early, anonymous SoundCloud drops were hushed and hesitant, a shroud of tape hiss and white noise between himself and true self-examination.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
  • With each new Burr special of the last few years, this pattern repeats, with a wall of defensive posturing and then a twist into near-tender self-examination.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • On the 30th, the full moon in fellow water sign Pisces brings a rare opportunity for self-examination and release.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • There’s too much consequence at the fearsome big-wave break off the coast of Half Moon Bay, too much reason to withdraw into self-examination.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2022
  • For that matter, much of what has happened to everyone at this point, and what happens in these two episodes, is a result of various characters attempting self-examination.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
  • His new album, Stardust, is his first recorded without substances, and trades self-examination for affirmation.
    — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
  • And Kenyatta, so dedicated to action and self-examination, has made no allowance for the profound damage done to his daughter by his absence.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Exploration fosters self-examination under the Scorpio new moon.
    — USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • For readers of a certain age, these passages, which capture a romantic longing that is adolescent in its intensity, will provoke self-examination.
    — Christine Smallwood, Vulture, 6 May 2024
  • Gilbert's self-examination on teen violence continued this week with questions about doxing and teen curfew hours during a special town subcommittee forum.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024

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