Get to know Self better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like person or individual.
Self in a sentence
Related words
Self meaning
- Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
- Myself, oneself.
Synonyms of Self
Using Self
- The main meaning on this page is: Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned). | Myself, oneself.
- Useful related words include: person, individual, someone, somebody.
- In the example corpus, self often appears in combinations such as: the self, of self, self and.
Context around Self
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Self
- In this selection, "self" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, ideal, injured, esteem, regard and care stand out and add context to how "self" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about our self our self and affiliated with self exclusion tools. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "self" sits close to words such as room, america and wanted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with self
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Instead we are working toward self-acceptance, self-love and self-care,” explains Cooper. (14 words)
It’s been a long journey of self-hatred, self-doubt, anxiety, self-love, suffering and compassion. (17 words)
Individual and Collective Processes in the Construction of the Self: Self-Enhancement in the United States and Self-Criticism in Japan. (21 words)
Self-care posts are plastered over social media, I’ve had people shout “Treat yo self” to me as I pass bake sales in the Marketplace and I’ve seen fliers about self-care events with free face masks and lotions, but what does it really mean? (47 words)
I think a lot about my 5-year-old self, my 9-year-old self, my 12-year-old self, my 16-year-old self, and how she had this insane dream that was so improbable for a poor, short, fat, brown daughter of Honduran immigrants. (46 words)
Carl Rogers thought the self-concept—the very core of our self-identity—had three distinct subcategories: our self-esteem (how we feel about our self), our self-image (how we see our self), and our ideal self (how we want our self to be). (45 words)
Have you ever been stuck in a place where you have negative, distorted or self-defeating thought patterns like guilt and shame over past mistakes, perfectionism, comparison with others, self-reliance, or condemning self-talk? (35 words)
Self-care posts are plastered over social media, I’ve had people shout “Treat yo self” to me as I pass bake sales in the Marketplace and I’ve seen fliers about self-care events with free face masks and lotions, but what does it really mean? (47 words)
Example sentences (20)
Carl Rogers thought the self-concept—the very core of our self-identity—had three distinct subcategories: our self-esteem (how we feel about our self), our self-image (how we see our self), and our ideal self (how we want our self to be).
What kind of self was I? Self-analysis laid bare my narcissistically injured self, self-esteem issues, chronic self-doubt and fears of my own competence (to name a few!).
Similarly, these individuals commonly struggle with self-directed anger and self-blame, as well as difficulties self regulating emotions and self discipline.
I think a lot about my 5-year-old self, my 9-year-old self, my 12-year-old self, my 16-year-old self, and how she had this insane dream that was so improbable for a poor, short, fat, brown daughter of Honduran immigrants.
Although Kantian self-governance appears to involve "a rational crackdown on appetites and emotions" with lack of harmony between reason and emotion, Kantian virtue denies requiring "self-conquest, self-suppression, or self-silencing".
David-Imeh said the organization was moved to action the first time it saw the people by teaching their children, educating them, helping them to build self-esteem, self-value and self-worth.
There can be unholy love, which is self-indulgence; there can be unholy self-definition, which instead of guarding integrity is merely a setting of the self against the world, an expression of unaccountable, amoral power.
Have you ever been stuck in a place where you have negative, distorted or self-defeating thought patterns like guilt and shame over past mistakes, perfectionism, comparison with others, self-reliance, or condemning self-talk?
He is most often self-indulgent and self-involved, but has flashes of self-awareness: “He wanted to be on ‘the right side of history’, whatever that was.
Through these fairs, the youth are getting employment opportunities, training and self-employment opportunities in the private sector, which are proving to be important steps towards self-reliance and self-sufficiency for the youth of the state.
Yes, though they’re not affiliated with self-exclusion tools like GamStop, you can self-exclude using their own self-exclusion tools.
Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence.
While four students have been fined for not self-isolating, Strang said most of the out-of-province students are either still self-isolating or have completed their self-isolation requirements.
If you think of narcissism as a spectrum with healthy self-regard in the middle, the ends are occupied by the echoist, who lacks self-regard, and the narcissist, who uses exaggerated self-regard as armor.
Instead we are working toward self-acceptance, self-love and self-care,” explains Cooper.
It’s been a long journey of self-hatred, self-doubt, anxiety, self-love, suffering and compassion.
Unlike the liberal self who can afford to be indifferent to the other, or the conservative self who is outrightly antagonistic, the Gandhian self trusts the other, even the “enemy”, and acts out of love.
Individual and Collective Processes in the Construction of the Self: Self-Enhancement in the United States and Self-Criticism in Japan.
It can be concluded that this capacity to contrive lies and misguide can eventually convince one’s self of deliberate fictions, separating through mantra self-brainwashing, any ability to relate to the pursuit of balance, self-examination and closure.
Self-care posts are plastered over social media, I’ve had people shout “Treat yo self” to me as I pass bake sales in the Marketplace and I’ve seen fliers about self-care events with free face masks and lotions, but what does it really mean?
Common combinations with self
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the self 17×
- of self 10×
- self and 9×
- and self 5×
- -year-old self 4×
- our self 3×
- self my 3×
- self who 3×
- in self 3×
- self or 3×