How to Use soul-searching in a Sentence

soul-searching

noun
  • There’s a lot of soul-searching going on with Democrats right now.
    — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • There will be soul-searching in the offseason for the Yankees.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • But his win has sparked a wave of GOP attacks and triggered a fresh round of soul-searching among Democrats.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 26 June 2025
  • Democrats will have to do a lot of soul-searching to figure out how to recover.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Something tells me Nicholas might have some more soul-searching to do this season.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Malice: The whole hiatus for me was a soul-searching journey.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 July 2025
  • The soul-searching that Edwards did in the wake of that Boston loss has led to a scoring explosion from him of late.
    — Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And a third straight loss in the first round of the playoffs will undoubtedly lead to some offseason soul-searching for the Kings.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • The Bostock ruling arrived against a backdrop of anguished soul-searching on the right.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • After a soul-searching hiatus, the 33-year-old rapper is back in motion and has no plans of letting up.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • The soul-searching starts and ends there, on an outlier of a song more concerned with the consequences of fame than the cause of those consequences.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But if Elemental performs closer to Lightyear, some soul-searching about the state of the Pixar brand will be in order.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Democrats are soul-searching in the Southern battlegrounds.
    — Matthew Cullen, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The challenges have spurred soul-searching within the industry.
    — Liang Lei, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And packing up to leave New York for a soul-searching stint abroad with my dearest friend, we, together, thought, what better time?
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
  • He was attracted to the project to understand the angst that led the teenagers to kill themselves and the soul-searching that this tragedy provoked in their parents and grandparents.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • Beyond that are the unknowns, as well as soul-searching, pain and accusations.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The scale of Trump's triumph has sparked widespread soul-searching within the Democratic Party over what went wrong and how to rebuild.
    — Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The current moment is unlikely to provoke much soul-searching in the Kremlin.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • It's been the weirdest, most confusing, challenging, soul-searching year of my life.
    — Karli Bendlin, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
  • My first couple months following the breakup were filled with soul-searching road trips, purging my closet, and reruns of Gilmore Girls.
    — Amanda Kohr, refinery29.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Buoyed by the cost-of-living crisis and immigration angst, its rise has caused soul-searching for a country still mindful of its Nazi past.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • While the postmortem and soul-searching are necessary, the tone and tenor of the blame game have begun to morph into something more insidious.
    — Anthony D. Romero, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Democrats have engaged in soul-searching and finger-pointing within the party as members look to apportion blame for the defeat.
    — Ivana Saric, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
  • After taking a licking in 2022, Republicans once again failed to respond with soul-searching about losing the youth vote.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2023
  • While there’s a lot of soul-searching to be done in October, finding ways to stay grounded and connected will be your biggest challenge, Scorpio.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
  • And for all the soul-searching and probing, Conrad is well aware that kink can lead to comedy—up to a point.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 22 Jan. 2026
  • There is no way to tackle these questions without deep reflection and a great deal of soul-searching.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Moore has some soul-searching to do in the offseason, which has already begun for all intents and purposes.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
  • There will be a lot of soul-searching, a lot of social posts, a lot of hot takes as to what went wrong with Coach Prime’s third campaign.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2025

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