Example Sentences

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Mr. Kaplow’s crackling script incorporates some historically accurate trivia involving other celebrities who showed up at Sardi’s, including one jarringly self-confident and vaguely obnoxious little boy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Blustery, self-confident and bursting with ideas, Petty was always thinking five moves ahead of everyone else in the band.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

In private I found him self-confident to the point of arrogance, convinced he was the all-knowing spider at the heart of the Middle East web, tracking his enemies' malign intentions and ready to strike.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024

Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2024

Robert is self-effacing; still, he’s a self-confident person.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner